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Seasonality of Ankle Swelling: Population Symptom Reporting Using Google Trends

Fangwei Liu, G. Michael Allan, Christina Korownyk, Michael Kolber, Nigel Flook, Harvey Sternberg and Scott Garrison
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2016, 14 (4) 356-358; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1953
Fangwei Liu
Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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G. Michael Allan
Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Christina Korownyk
Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Michael Kolber
Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Nigel Flook
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Harvey Sternberg
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Scott Garrison
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  • For correspondence: scott.garrison@ualberta.ca

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Google Trends Internet search volume for ‘ankle swelling,’ ‘swollen ankles,’ ‘swollen feet, or ‘swollen legs’ in Australia (◊) and the United States (Δ) (August 29, 2010, to January 26, 2016).

Horizontal axis markers (Dec, Jun) are centered mid-month. The solid line and dashed line are best-fit sinusoids for Australia and the United States, respectively.

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Fangwei Liu, G. Michael Allan, Christina Korownyk, Michael Kolber, Nigel Flook, Harvey Sternberg, Scott Garrison
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