United Kingdom/epidemiology

Down, L., Barlow, M., Bailey, S. E. R., Mounce, L. T. A., Merriel, S. W. D., Watson, J., & Martins, T. (2024). Association between patient ethnicity and prostate cancer diagnosis following a prostate-specific antigen test: a cohort study of 730,000 men in primary care in the UK. Bmc Med, 22, 82. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03283-5
Català, M., Mercadé-Besora, N., Kolde, R., Trinh, N. T. H., Roel, E., Burn, E., et al. (2024). The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent long COVID symptoms: staggered cohort study of data from the UK, Spain, and Estonia. Lancet Respir Med, 12, 225-236. http://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(23)00414-9
Dedman, D., Williams, R., Bhaskaran, K., & Douglas, I. J. (2024). Pooling of primary care electronic health record (EHR) data on Huntington's disease (HD) and cancer: establishing comparability of two large UK databases. Bmj Open, 14, e070258. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070258
Masarwa, R., Reynier, P., Lefebvre, C., Platt, R. W., Delaney, J. A. C., & Filion, K. B. (2024). Prescribing trends of proton pump inhibitors and histamine blockers among children in the United Kingdom (1998-2019): A population-based assessment. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf, 33, e5752. http://doi.org/10.1002/pds.5752
Robinson, J. W., Martin, R., Ozawa, M., Elwenspoek, M. M. C., Redaniel, M. T., Kurian, K., & Ben-Shlomo, Y. (2024). Use of drugs for hyperlipidaemia and diabetes and risk of primary and secondary brain tumours: nested case-control studies using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). Bmj Open, 14, e072026. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072026
Liaw, J., Liaw, D., & Dave, C. (2024). Initiation patterns of anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation among older UK adults with and without chronic kidney disease, 2010-2020. Open Heart, 11. http://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2023-002515
Skirrow, H., Foley, K., Bedford, H., Lewis, C., Whittaker, E., Costelloe, C., & Saxena, S. (2024). Impact of pregnancy vaccine uptake and socio-demographic determinants on subsequent childhood Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine uptake: A UK birth cohort study. Vaccine, 42, 322-331. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.11.063
Doran, W., Tunnicliffe, L., Muzambi, R., Rentsch, C. T., Bhaskaran, K., Smeeth, L., et al. (2024). Incident dementia risk among patients with type 2 diabetes receiving metformin versus alternative oral glucose-lowering therapy: an observational cohort study using UK primary healthcare records. Bmj Open Diabetes Res Care, 12. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2023-003548
Morgan, C. L., Durand, A., McCormack, T., Hughes, E., Berni, T. R., & Lahoz, R. (2023). Risk of major adverse cardiovascular events associated with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in a population with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with and without type 2 diabetes: a UK database analysis using the CPRD. Bmj Open, 13, e064541. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064541
Tufts, J., Guan, N., Zemedikun, D. T., Subramanian, A., Gokhale, K., Myles, P., et al. (2023). The cost of primary care consultations associated with long COVID in non-hospitalised adults: a retrospective cohort study using UK primary care data. Bmc Prim Care, 24, 245. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-023-02196-1