Social Media Posts About Medical Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Social media is an influential source of medical information, but little is known about how posts discuss medical tests that carry potential for overdiagnosis or overuse.

Objective

To investigate how social media posts discuss 5 popular medical tests: full-body magnetic resonance imaging, the multicancer early detection test, and tests for antimullerian hormone, gut microbiome, and testosterone.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study assessed posts on Instagram and TikTok between April 30, 2015, and January 23, 2024, that discussed full-body magnetic resonance imaging, the multicancer early detection test, and tests for antimullerian hormone, gut microbiome, and testosterone. Using keywords on newly created accounts, posts were searche

SUBMITTER: Nickel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11866028 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature