People whoused religious language such as “God” and “pray” in Facebook postswere 15 times more likely to have diabetes than people who usedthese terms the least.
A new study suggests that words used in Facebookposts could help identify medical conditions such as diabetes anddepression.
The study, by the University of Pennsylvania's school ofmedicine and Stony Brook University, used an automated datacollection technique to analyze Facebook posts of nearly 1,000patients. The study used AI language processing to analyze 949,530Facebook status updates containing 20,248,122 words, taken fromposts that contained at least 500 words. The patients had agreed tohave their electronic medical records linked to theirprofiles on Facebook.
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