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Active Post-Licensure Safety Surveillance for Recombinant Zoster Vaccine Using Electronic Health Record Data
Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Oct 4:kwac170. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwac170. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRecombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) (Shingrix; GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, United Kingdom) is an adjuvanted glycoprotein vaccine that was licensed in 2017 to prevent herpes zoster and its complications in older adults. In this prospective, post-licensure Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) study using electronic health records, we sequentially monitored a real-world population of adults aged 50 years and older who received care at multiple VSD health systems in the United States to identify potential increased risks of 10 pre-specified prior...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - October 4, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jennifer C Nelson Ernesto Ulloa-P érez Onchee Yu Andrea J Cook Michael L Jackson Edward A Belongia Matthew F Daley Rafael Harpaz Elyse O Kharbanda Nicola P Klein Allison L Naleway Hung-Fu Tseng Eric S Weintraub Jonathan Duffy W Katherine Yih Lisa A Jacks Source Type: research

Sexual orientation-related disparities in health conditions that elevate COVID-19 severity
CONCLUSIONS: Findings largely corroborated patterns among the general US population. Further research is needed to determine if these disparities translate to poorer COVID-19 outcomes for individuals with minoritized sexual orientation.PMID:34785397 | DOI:10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.11.006
Source: Annals of Epidemiology - November 17, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kristine E Lynch Jillian C Shipherd Elise Gatsby Benjamin Viernes Scott L DuVall John R Blosnich Source Type: research

Weight Change and the Onset of Cardiovascular Diseases: Emulating Trials Using Electronic Health Records
Conclusion: Among individuals with obesity, the weight-loss group had a lower risk of coronary heart disease but not of stroke. Weight gain was associated with increased risk of CVD across BMI groups. See video abstract at, http://links.lww.com/EDE/B838.
Source: Epidemiology - August 3, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Chronic Diseases Source Type: research

Validity of Cardiovascular Disease Event Ascertainment Using Linkage to UK Hospital Records
Conclusion: Our analyses support the validity of cardiovascular disease ascertainment using linkage to the UK Hospital Episode Statistics database records by showing agreement with high resolution disease data collected in the Whitehall II cohort.
Source: Epidemiology - August 2, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Validation Studies Source Type: research

Usual blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and vascular risk: evidence from 4.3 million adults
Conclusions:</strong> The association between elevated blood pressure and AF attenuates with increasing age. AF without antithrombotic usage is associated with an increased risk of eight vascular events.</span>
Source: International Journal of Epidemiology - April 28, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Brief Report: Databases in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Potential for a Distributed Network Approach
Conclusions: We identified 11 databases with capabilities for distributed network approaches. Many country-specific coding systems and terminologies have been already converted to international coding systems. The harmonization of health expenditure data is a major obstacle for future investigations attempting to evaluate issues related to medical costs.
Source: Epidemiology - October 1, 2015 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Data Source Type: research

Heterogeneous associations between smoking and a wide range of initial presentations of cardiovascular disease in 1 937 360 people in England: lifetime risks and implications for risk prediction
Conclusions The heterogeneous associations of smoking with different CVD presentations suggests different underlying mechanisms and have important implications for research, clinical screening and risk prediction.
Source: International Journal of Epidemiology - February 22, 2015 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Pujades-Rodriguez, M., George, J., Shah, A. D., Rapsomaniki, E., Denaxas, S., West, R., Smeeth, L., Timmis, A., Hemingway, H. Tags: Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Source Type: research