Twitter-Derived Social Neighborhood Characteristics and Individual-Level Cardiometabolic Outcomes: Cross-Sectional Study in a Nationally Representative Sample.
Dina HuangYuru HuangSahil KhannaPallavi DwivediNatalie SlopenKerry M GreenXin HeRobin C PuettQuynh Camthi NguyenPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2020)
Twitter-derived social neighborhood characteristics were associated with individual-level obesity and hypertension in a nationally representative sample of US adults. Twitter data could be used for capturing neighborhood sociocultural influences on chronic conditions and may be used as a platform for chronic outcomes prevention.