Health Effects Associated With Electronic Cigarette Use: Automated Mining of Online Forums.

My Hua Shouq A Sadah Vagelis Hristidis Prue Talbot

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)

Online forums are a valuable repository of data that can be used to identify positive and negative health effects associated with EC use. By automating extraction of online information, we obtained more data than in our prior study, identified new symptoms and disorders associated with EC use, determined which systems are most frequently adversely affected, identified specific symptoms and disorders most commonly reported, and tracked health effects over 7 years.

Keyphrases

health information
social media
electronic health record
big data
machine learning
sleep quality
high throughput
deep learning
data analysis
depressive symptoms