Infodemiology and Infoveillance of Multiple Sclerosis in Italy

Table 1

A list of the towns (first column) with the higher normalized MS hit search flux volumes (NFV), as provided by Google Trends. In the third column, these crude NFV data have been rescaled taking into account the Digital Divide and North-South access to the Internet (according to the ISTAT) and re-normalized. We term these data the adjusted NFV.

City/town	Crude NFV (%)	Adjusted NFV (%)
Cagliari	100	100
Rome	80	93
Milan	80	93
Turin	74	86
Pescara	71	82
Palermo	69	66
Bologna	69	80
Bari	67	64
Cosenza	67	64
Perugia	66	77
Padua	65	75
Genoa	65	75
Catania	64	61
Florence	62	72
Ancona	60	70