Google's top trending health issues of 2012

What were the top "trending" health topics of 2012? Google compiled a list of the health issues that were most popular among users throughout the year.

According to Google, trending queries are searches that had the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011. That differs from most searched topics, which looks at total volume. For example, Google's top trending search for all of 2012 was "Whitney Houston."

When it comes to our health, many users googled topics that were tied to popular studies or common ailments. Keep clicking to see Google's top trending health issues in 2012...

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