Publication Name	World Journal of Methodology
Manuscript ID	80611
Country	Greece

Received	2022-10-06 10:06
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Category	Endocrinology & Metabolism
Manuscript Type	Observational Study
Article Title	Pandemic and precocious puberty - a Google trends study
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Athanasios Tselebis, Lina Zabuliene, Charalampos Milionis and Ioannis Ilias
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Corresponding Author	Ioannis Ilias, MD, PhD, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Department of Endocrinology, Elena Venizelou General and Maternity Hospital, 2, Elena Venizelou Square, Athens GR-11521, Greece. iiliasmd@yahoo.com
Key Words	Data collection; Epidemiology; Puberty; Human; Methods; Trends
Core Tip	An increasing number of young people are experiencing precocious puberty (PP) during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. We estimated, through relevant internet searches, changes in the epidemiology of PP. We assessed in Google trends searches for PP-related terms in English internationally, and in English and local languages, in countries where a rise in PP has been reported, in the years 2017-2021. More than half of the search terms showed little change or declined. The discrepancy between internet searches for PP and the reported increase in the literature is striking. If our findings are valid, the literature may have been biased.
Publish Date	2023-01-13 10:36
Citation	Tselebis A, Zabuliene L, Milionis C, Ilias I. Pandemic and precocious puberty - a Google trends study. World J Methodol 2023; 13(1): 1-9
URL	https://www.wjgnet.com/2222-0682/full/v13/i1/1.htm
DOI	https://dx.doi.org/10.5662/wjm.v13.i1.1

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