Statistics of patients using the internet for medical research

In a recent study collected by the Pew Internet Project, detailed here at The Health Care Blog, they find that 75% of internet users search online for medical information between October and December of 2007. It was also found that 10% of surfers look at health data on a daily basis.

Here are some more of the demographics determined:

- 68% of online men look online for health info
- 81% of online women
- 76% of white internet users
- 65% of African-American internet users
- 71% of English-speaking Hispanic internet users (new health data on the whole Latino population is coming out August 13 from the Pew Hispanic Center)
- 68% of 18-29 year-old internet users
- 78% of 30-49s
- 76% of 50-64s
- 71% of internet users age 65+ (but remember, only one-third of seniors go online at all)