@article{uneatlantico17851,
           pages = {100282},
            year = {2025},
          volume = {9},
          author = {Rajeev K. Singla and Himel Mondal and Shailja Singla and Ronita De and Sahar Behzad and Mihnea-Alexandru G{\u a}man and Siva Sai Chandragiri and Merisa Cenanovic and Jayanta Kumar Patra and Jennifer R. Depew and Hemanth Kumar Boyina and Abdulkadir Yusif Maigoro and Soojin Lee and Omar M. Atrooz and Gitishree Das and Fabien Schultz and Emad Mohamed Abdallah and Hitesh Chopra and Jamil Ahmad and Rupesh K. Gautam and Sourav S. Patnaik and Bey Hing Goh and Smith B. Babiaka and Sharad Vats and Michael P. Okoh and Atallah F. Ahmed and Ankit Kumar Dubey and Ronan Lordan and Parasuraman Aiya Subramani and Amit Kumar Singh and Jos{\'e} M. Alvarez-Suarez and Dinesh Kumar Chellappan and Shravan Kumar Paswan and Prabhakar Semwal and Johra Khan and Sadeeq Sheshe and Neeraj Kumar Sethiya and Tomasz M. Karpi{\'n}ski and Muhammad Riaz and Zahra Emam-Djomeh and Girish Kumar Gupta and Reecha Madaan and Suresh Kumar and Neeraj Choudhary and Salvatore Parisi and Harald Willschke and Vasil Pirgozliev and Rehab A. Rayan and Valentin Ritschl and Shaikat Mondal and Gokhan Zengin and Pritt Verma and Bhupinder Kapoor and Monica Gulati and Gareeballah Osman Adam Balla and Dan Khoa Le and Valeria Pittal{\`a} and Amr El-Demerdash and Garba M. Khalid and Jesus Simal-Gandara and Qushmua E. Alzahrani and Gian Luigi Russo and Kiran R. Kharat and Anupam Bishayee and Dongdong Wang and Ilkay Erdogan Orhan and Hammad Ullah and Michael Heinrich and Bikash Baral and Nikolay T. Tzvetkov and Andy Wai Kan Yeung and Jo{\~a}o M.L. Dias-Ferreira and Scarlett Perez Olea and Yugal Kishore Mohanta and Azazahemad A. Kureshi and Claudiu T. Supuran and Neeraj Rani and Rohit Gundamaraju and Eoghan Joseph Mulholland and Sara Di Lonardo and Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova and Elena Gonz{\'a}lez-Burgos and Lucian Hritcu and Pravin Badhe and Abhilasha Singh and Fuad Al-Rimawi and Antoni Sureda and Rambod Abiri and Nady Braidy and Lorenz Kapral and A.N. Abdullahi and Christhian Delfino Villanueva Medina and Helen Sheridan and Massimo Lucarini and Alessandra Durazzo and Francesca Giampieri and Davide Barreca and Witkowska Anna Maria and Jos{\'e} Carlos Andrade and Carmela Fimognari and Faizan Akram and Aleksei Tikhonov and Maurizio Battino and Akolade R. Oladipupo and Mila Emerald and Thomas Efferth and Said Amrani and Javier Echeverr{\'i}a and Anna Maria Louka and Surya Kant Tripathi and Bernd L. Fiebich and Nour Eddine Es-Safi and Shafaat Yar Khan and Vivek P. Chavda and Muhammad Asim Masoom Zubair and Samrina Hussain and Muhammad Fasih Ur Rahman and Joy Odimegwu and Jaroslaw Olav Horbanczuk and Hari Prasad Devkota and Alejandro Cifuentes and Rupinder Sodhi and Antonello Santini and Ourlad Alzeus G. Tantengco and Sandeep Ramchandra Pai and Ananda Kumar Chettupalli and Sebastian Granica and Nikola M. Stojanovi{\'c} and Devesh Tewari and Vineet Mittal and Vandana Garg and Mohammad Akhlaquer Rahman and Rajan Logesh and Ioana Berindan-Neagoe and Rohit Sharma and Artur J{\'o}{\'z}wik and Maima Matin and Emil D. Parvanov and Nina Strza{\l}kowska and Farhan Bin Matin and Olena Litvinova and Jivko Stoyanov and Monika Michalczuk and Bogumila Zima-Kulisiewicz and Okyaz Eminaga and Awanish Mishra and Nishat Jahan and Joanna Bensz and Tanuj Joshi and Aman Upaganlawar and Kiran Patni and Aleksandra Zieli{\'n}ska and Dalibor Hrg and Artur Stolarczyk and Olga Adamska and George Perry and Micha{\l} {\L}awi{\'n}ski and Agnieszka Kami{\'n}ska and Mario {\v S}tefanovi{\'c} and Bodrun Naher Siddiquea and Sara Frazzini and Luciana Rossi and Marek Wieczorek and Michel Edwar Mickael and Leif-Alexander Garbe and Atanas G. Atanasov and Bairong Shen},
           month = {Abril},
           title = {Exploring nutritional supplement use for countering respiratory tract infections through an X (formerly Twitter)-based survey},
         journal = {Current Research in Biotechnology},
             url = {http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/id/eprint/17851/},
        keywords = {Phytomedicine; Respiratory tract infections; Bacteria; COVID-19; Nutritional supplements; X (formerly Twitter)},
        abstract = {Background
Respiratory tract infections are a common health issue, driving interest in preventive strategies like nutritional supplements, while evidence on their usage and effectiveness remains limited. In this context, social media platforms, particularly X (formerly Twitter), provide a unique opportunity to gather large-scale public health-related data.
Objectives
In this study, we aimed to survey participants? uses and opinions on nutritional supplements in prevention or treatment of respiratory tract infections, by using X.
Methods
A survey was conducted between 1st and 15th December 2022. A single open-ended question ?Which are the best dietary supplements to counteract respiratory infections?? was asked. One week after the start of the survey, a poll was posted to get more relevant information and boost the survey?s reach. Total endorsements were calculated for each tweet posted as the total sum of replies, retweets, and likes.
Results
The open-ended question received a total of 118 retweets, 39 quotes, and 371 likes, while the poll received 56 retweets, 13 quotes, and 67 likes. A total of 495 replies, 2,251 retweets, 5,118 likes, and 148 quotes were received for the question and its related tweets. Vitamin D (1,607 endorsements), zinc (1,347 endorsements), vitamin C (803 endorsements), magnesium (694 endorsements), and honey (661 endorsements) were the nutritional supplements that received most endorsements.
Conclusion
Various foods, drinks, and natural ingredients have been suggested as potentially helpful for counteracting respiratory infections. Approximately half of respondents indicated using such supplements for themselves. The result of this study supports the idea that the X platform can be used as an effective survey tool to study global health-related behaviours and trends.}
}