A crumb of a clue on epidemiology

[MrMagoo]

Yes, on Google Trends, you can pick Metro or City for the subregion option.

Metro does make it more fine-grained into 210 areas, but the problem is that it becomes a lot harder to try to correlate it with other variables, since I think it'd be hard to find various stats like average income or ancestry subdivided in this way.

There's also the City option, but it looks like only 10 cities in the US have enough data to show.

I’m just coming out with random stuff now, isn’t a lot of Canada Scottish as well?

 

[forestglip]

I’m just coming out with random stuff now, isn’t a lot of Canada Scottish as well?

Yeah, it looks to be higher than in the US:

Scottish Canadians

13.9% of the total Canadian population (2016)

Scottish Americans

8,422,613 (3.6%) Scottish alone or in combination

Also higher when considering the more general British ancestry:

British Canadians

32.5% of the total Canadian population (2016)

British Americans

18.4% of the total US population

If British ancestry were a risk factor for ME/CFS, then presumably we'd see a larger prevalence in Canada. I don't know if we have any good studies on that.

But if we are considering the Google Trends data for the past 22 years, the search interest in Canada for ME/CFS is only barely higher than in the US (scores are 18 vs. 16), which seems to go against the idea of British propensity for ME/CFS.