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PUBLICATIONS: 2020 - 2021
Examination of Medication Use Patterns by Age Group, Comorbidity, and Month in COVID-19 Positive Patients in a Large Statewide Health System During the Pandemic in 2020 (FULL ARTICLE)
Jonathan H. Watanabe PharmD, MS, PhD, Jimmy Kwon MS & Sanjay R. Mehta MD | Journal of Pharmacy Technology | April 2022 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Is prior antithrombotic use protective against COVID-19 infection? A cross-sectional study of the University of California Health patient population (FULL ARTICLE)
Katerina Yale, Cristina Nguyen, Seraphim Telep, Alessandro Ghigi, Kai Zheng, Indhu Subramanian, Colin Feeney, Natasha A. Mesinkovska | Annals of Blood | March 2022 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
The role of gender, race, and ethnicity in psoriasis patients with COVID-19 infection: A cross-sectional study (FULL ARTICLE)
Cristina Nguyen, Samantha Shwe, Katerina Yale, Alessandro Ghigi, Kai Zheng, Natasha A. Mesinkovska, Tina Bhutani | International Journal of Women's Dermatology | March 2022 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Detection of COVID-19 Using Heart Rate and Blood Pressure: Lessons Learned from Patients with ARDS (FULL ARTICLE)
Milad Asgari Mehrabadi, Seyed Amir Hossein Aqajari, Iman Azimi, Charles A. Downs, Nikil Dutt, Amir M. Rahmani | 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) | November 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
COVID-19 hospitalizations in five California hospitals: a retrospective cohort study (FULL ARTICLE)
Miriam Nuño, Yury García, Ganesh Rajasekar, Diego Pinheiro, Alec J. Schmidt | BMC Infectious Diseases | September 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
LB771 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19-Related Infection in Patients with Psoriasis: A Cross-Sectional Study (FULL ARTICLE)
Cristina Nguyen, Samantha Shwe, Katerina Yale, Alessandro Ghigi, Kai Zheng, Natasha A. Mesinkovska, Tina Bhutani | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | September 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Association of Age and Hospitalization Amongst Those with Underlying High-risk Conditions at COVID-19 Diagnosis in a Large, State-wide Health System (FULL ARTICLE)
Jonathan H. Watanabe PharmD, MS, PhD, Jimmy Kwon MS & Sanjay R. Mehta MD | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 16 June 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Medication Use Patterns in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in California During the Pandemic (FULL ARTICLE)
Jonathan H. Watanabe; Jimmy Kwon; Bin Nan; Shira R. Abeles; Stanley Jia; Sanjay R. Mehta doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.10775 | 21 May 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Effectiveness of the Recombinant Zoster Vaccine for Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus in the United States (FULL ARTICLE)
Angela Lu, Yuwei Sun, Travis C Porco, Benjamin F Arnold, Nisha R Acharya DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2021.04.017 | 20 April 2021 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Cardiovascular and Bleeding Outcomes with Anticoagulants across Kidney Disease Stages: Analysis of a National US Cohort (FULL ARTICLE)
Sy J., Hsiung J., Edgett D., Kalantar-Zadeh K., Streja E., Lau W.L. Am J Nephrol 2021;52:199–208 https://doi.org/10.1159/000514753 | May 2021 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with thyroid disease: a cross-sectional study (FULL ARTICLE)
Cristina Nguyen, Katerina Yale, Alessandro Ghigi, Kai Zheng, Natasha Atanaskova Mesinkovska, Carlos Gustavo Wambier, Flavio Adsuara Cadegiani, Andy Goren doi: 10.21037/aot-21-8 | 30 March 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Longitudinal Dose Trajectory Among Patients Tapering Long-Term Opioids (FULL ARTICLE)
Joshua J Fenton, MD, MPH, Elizabeth M Magnan, MD, PhD, Alicia L Agnoli, MD, MPH, MHS, Stephen G Henry, MD, MSc, Guibo Xing, PhD, Daniel J Tancredi, PhD https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa470 | 19 March 2021 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Androgens and women: COVID‐19 outcomes in women with acne vulgaris, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and hirsutism (FULL ARTICLE)
Katerina Yale MD Rachel Elsanadi BS Alessandro Ghigi MS Kai Zheng PhD Andy Goren MD Natasha A. Mesinkovska doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijd.15473 | 02 March 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
COVID Symptoms, Symptom Clusters, and Predictors for Becoming a Long-Hauler: Looking for Clarity in the Haze of the Pandemic (FULL ARTICLE)
Yong Huang, Melissa D Pinto, Jessica L Borelli, Milad Asgari Mehrabadi, Heather Abrihim, Nikil Dutt, Natalie Lambert, Erika L Nurmi, Rana Chakraborty, Amir M Rahmani, View ORCID ProfileCharles Downs. medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.03.21252086 | 05 March 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Effectiveness of the recombinant zoster vaccine in adults aged 50 and older in the United States: a claims-based cohort study (FULL ARTICLE)
Yuwei Sun, MS, Eric Kim, MA, Christina L Kong, BS, Benjamin F Arnold, PhD, Travis C Porco, PhD, MPH, Nisha R Acharya, MD, MS | 13 February 2021 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Prevalence of Ophthalmologic Diagnoses in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Using the Optum Dataset: A Population-Based Study (FULL ARTICLE)
Melinda Y. Chang, Danielle Doppee, Fei Yu, Claudia Perez, Anne L. Coleman, Stacy L. Pineles | American Journal of Ophthalmology | January 2021 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Seasonality of herpes zoster and herpes zoster ophthalmicus (FULL ARTICLE)
Elyse J. Berlinberga, Eric Kima, Michael S. Deinerb, Casey Pattersona, Travis C. Porcoabc, Nisha R. Acharya Journal of Clinical Virology (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
The use of atropine for treatment of amblyopia using the OptumLabs Data Warehouse (FULL ARTICLE)
Stacy L. Pineles, Michael X. Repka, Fei Yu, Federico G. Velez,Claudia Perez, Danielle Sim, Anne L. Coleman JAAPOS DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.11.003 | Dec 18, 2020 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Frailty and Risk of Serious Infections in Biologic-treated Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (FULL ARTICLE)
Siddharth Singh, MD, MS, Herbert C Heien, MS, Lindsey Sangaralingham, MPH, Nilay D Shah, PhD, Jennifer C Lai, MD, MBA, William J Sandborn, MD, Alison A Moore, MD, MPH Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, izaa327, https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaa327 Published: 16 December 2020 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
A Cross-sectional study on Herpes Zoster diagnosis in the time of COVID-19 (FULL ARTICLE)
Nourohammadi M, Yale KL, Ghigi A, Zheng K, Mesinkovska NA. SKIN J Cutan Med. | 27 October 2020 (Data was collected from UC CORDS, the University of California COvid Research Data Set)
Incidence Rate of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus: A Retrospective Cohort Study from 1994 through 2018 (FULL ARTICLE)
Kong CL, Thompson RR, Porco TC, Kim E, Acharya N. Ophthalmology. 2020 Mar;127(3):324-330. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2019.10.001. Epub 2020 Oct 9. (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
No benefit of continuing vs stopping 5-aminosalicylates in patients with ulcerative colitis escalated to anti-metabolite therapy (FULL ARTICLE)
Siddharth Singh, Jihoon Kim, Wenhong Zhu, Parambir S. Dulai, William J. Sandborn, Vipul Jairath. June 23, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.15876. (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Paternal Exposure to Immunosuppressive and/or Biologic Agents and Birth Outcomes in Patients with Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (FULL ARTICLE)
Joseph Meserve, Jiyu Luo, Wenhong Zhu, Nina Veeravalli, Gretchen Bandoli, Christina D. Chambers, Abha G. Singh, Brigid S. Boland, William J. Sandborn, Uma Mahadevan, Siddharth Singh. | 2020 March 20 https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2021.03.020. (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Changing costs of type 1 diabetes care among US children and adolescents (FULL ARTICLE)
Stephanie Crossen, Guibo Xing, Jeffrey S. Hoch. Pediatric Diabetes. https://doi.org/10.1111/pedi.12996. Published February 14, 2020. (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Racial-Ethnic Differences in Service Use Patterns Among Young, Commercially Insured Individuals With Recent-Onset Psychosis (FULL ARTICLE)
Els van der Ven, Ezra Susser, Lisa B. Dixon, Mark Olfson, Todd P. Gilmer. Psychiatry Online. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900301. Published Online:14 Jan 2020. (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Long-Term Trends in Postoperative Opioid Prescribing, 1994 to 2014 (FULL ARTICLE)
Catherine Chen; Molly Jeffery; Erin Krebs;Cornelius Thiels; Mark Schumacher; Adam Schwartz; Robert Thombley; Emily Finlayson; Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio; Derek Ward; R. Dudley JAAOS: Global Research and Reviews. 4(1):e1900171, JANUARY 2020 DOI: 10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-19-00171,Issn Print: 2474-7661, Publication Date: January 2020 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
Which MCI patients should be included in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials? (FULL ARTICLE)
Joshua D. Grill, PhD, Michelle M. Nuño, Daniel L. Gillen, PhD, and Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2019 Apr-Jun; 33(2): 104–112. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000303 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health)
Service Use Following First-Episode Schizophrenia Among Commercially Insured Youth (FULL ARTICLE)
Gilmer TP, van der Ven E, Susser E, Dixon LB, Olfson M. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2020 Jan 4;46(1):91-97. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbz031 (UC BRAID in partnership with UC Health and OptumLabs)
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