Nutrients and Foods Recommended for Blood Pressure Control on Twitter in Japan: Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Management and prevention of hypertension are important public health issues. Healthy dietary habits are one of the modifiable factors. As Twitter (subsequently rebranded X) is a digital platform that can influence public eating behavior, there is a knowledge gap regarding the information about foods and nutrients recommended for blood pressure control and who disseminates them on Twitter.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the nature of the information people are exposed to on Twitter regarding nutrients and foods for blood pressure control.

Methods

A total of 147,898 Japanese tweets were extracted from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022. The final sample of 2347 tweets with at least 1 retweet was manually coded into categories of food groups, nu

SUBMITTER: Terada M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11224700 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature