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Research

• Diet in the management of type 2 diabetes: umbrella review of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials (9 November, 2023)

  Edyta Szczerba, Janett Barbaresko, Tim Schiemann, Anna Stahl-Pehe, Lukas Schwingshackl, Sabrina Schlesinger
• Transgender identity in young people and adults recorded in UK primary care electronic patient records: retrospective, dynamic, cohort study (28 November, 2023)

  Douglas Gordon John McKechnie, Elizabeth O'Nions, Julia Bailey, Lorna Hobbs, Frank Gillespie, Irene Petersen
• Use of covid-19 convalescent plasma to treat patients admitted to hospital for covid-19 with or without underlying immunodeficiency: open label, randomised clinical trial (27 October, 2023)

  Karine Lacombe, Thomas Hueso, Raphael Porcher, Arsene Mekinian, Thibault Chiarabini, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, Florence Ader, Julien Saison, Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Nathalie De Castro, Fabrice Bonnet, Charles Cazanave, Anne Francois, Pascal Morel, Olivier Hermine, Valerie Pourcher, Marc Michel, Xavier Lescure, Nora Soussi, Phillipe Brun, Fanny Pommeret, Pierre Sellier, Stella Rousset, Lionel Piroth, Jean-Marie Michot, Gabriel Baron, Xavier de Lamballerie, Xavier Mariette, Pierre-Louis Tharaux, Matthieu Resche-Rigon, Philippe Ravaud, Tabassome Simon, Pierre Tiberghien
• Performance of polygenic risk scores in screening, prediction, and risk stratification: secondary analysis of data in the Polygenic Score Catalog (17 October, 2023)

  Aroon D Hingorani, Jasmine Gratton, Chris Finan, A Floriaan Schmidt, Riyaz Patel, Reecha Sofat, Valerie Kuan, Claudia Langenberg, Harry Hemingway, Joan K Morris, Nicholas J Wald
• Effect of national guidance on survival for babies born at 22 weeks’ gestation in England and Wales: population based cohort study (7 November, 2023)

  Lucy K Smith, Emily van Blankenstein, Grenville Fox, Sarah E Seaton, Mario Martínez-Jiménez, Stavros Petrou, Cheryl Battersby, MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Surveillance Group
• Multinational patterns of second line antihyperglycaemic drug initiation across cardiovascular risk groups: federated pharmacoepidemiological evaluation in LEGEND-T2DM (6 October, 2023)

  Rohan Khera, Lovedeep Singh Dhingra, Arya Aminorroaya, Kelly Li, Jin J Zhou, Faaizah Arshad, Clair Blacketer, Mary G Bowring, Fan Bu, Michael Cook, David A Dorr, Talita Duarte-Salles, Scott L DuVall, Thomas Falconer, Tina E French, Elizabeth E Hanchrow, Scott Horban, Wallis CY Lau, Jing Li, Yuntian Liu, Yuan Lu, Kenneth KC Man, Michael E Matheny, Nestoras Mathioudakis, Michael F McLemore, Evan Minty, Daniel R Morales, Paul Nagy, Akihiko Nishimura, Anna Ostropolets, Andrea Pistillo, Jose D Posada, Nicole Pratt, Carlen Reyes, Joseph S Ross, Sarah Seager, Nigam Shah, Katherine Simon, Eric YF Wan, Jianxiao Yang, Can Yin, Seng Chan You, Martijn J Schuemie, Patrick B Ryan, George Hripcsak, Harlan Krumholz, Marc A Suchard
• Sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of WHO 2013 criteria for diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus in low risk early pregnancies: international, prospective, multicentre cohort study (13 September, 2023)

  Evelyn A Huhn, Christian S Göbl, Thorsten Fischer, Monya Todesco Bernasconi, Martina Kreft, Mirjam Kunze, Deborah R Vogt, Eva Dölzlmüller, Heidi Jaksch-Bogensperger, Sandra Heldstab, Wolfgang Eppel, Peter Husslein, Nicole Ochsenbein Kölble, Anne Richter, Elke Bäz, Bettina Winzeler, Irene Hoesli
• Preconception contraceptive use and miscarriage: prospective cohort study (11 September, 2023)

  Jennifer J Yland, Amelia K Wesselink, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Krista Huybrechts, Elizabeth E Hatch, Tanran R Wang, David Savitz, Wendy Kuohung, Kenneth J Rothman, Lauren A Wise
• Association between perinatal mortality and morbidity and customised and non-customised birthweight centiles in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Wales, and England: comparative, population based, record linkage study (30 August, 2023)

  Fanny Kilpi, Hayley E Jones, Maria Christine Magnus, Gillian Santorelli, Lise Kristine Højsgaard Schmidt, Stine Kjaer Urhoj, Scott M Nelson, Derek Tuffnell, Robert French, Per Minor Magnus, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Pekka Martikainen, Kate Tilling, Deborah A Lawlor
• Quality of reporting of adverse events in clinical trials of covid-19 drugs: systematic review (21 September, 2023)

  Karima Madi, Clara Flumian, Pascale Olivier, Agnès Sommet, François Montastruc
• Comparative effectiveness of second line glucose lowering drug treatments using real world data: emulation of a target trial (9 August, 2023)

  Yihong Deng, Eric C Polley, Joshua D Wallach, Jeph Herrin, Joseph S Ross, Rozalina G McCoy
• Familial aggregation of multimorbidity in Sweden: national explorative family study (14 July, 2023)

  Bengt Zöller, MirNabi Pirouzifard, Björn Holmquist, Jan Sundquist, Anders Halling, Kristina Sundquist
• Effect of bilirubin and Gilbert syndrome on health: cohort analysis of observational, genetic, and Mendelian randomisation associations (12 July, 2023)

  Fergus W Hamilton, KWM Abeysekera, Willie Hamilton, Nicholas J Timpson
• Pregnancy, fetal, and neonatal outcomes after a first booster dose of covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy in Ontario, Canada: population based, retrospective cohort study (11 July, 2023)

  Deshayne B Fell, Sheryll Dimanlig-Cruz, Eszter Török, Siri E Håberg, Annette K Regan, Jay S Kaufman, Robert W Platt, Christopher A Gravel, Liam Bruce, Prakesh S Shah, Kumanan Wilson, Ann E Sprague, Gillian D Alton, Tavleen Dhinsa, Darine El-Chaâr, Sarah A Buchan, Jeffrey C Kwong, Sarah E Wilson, Sandra I Dunn, Shannon E MacDonald, Jon Barrett, Nannette Okun, Mark C Walker
• Vaccine effectiveness for prevention of covid-19 related hospital admission during pregnancy in England during the alpha and delta variant dominant periods of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: population based cohort study (10 July, 2023)

  Matthew L Bosworth, Ryan Schofield, Daniel Ayoubkhani, Loes Charlton, Vahé Nafilyan, Kamlesh Khunti, Francesco Zaccardi, Clare Gillies, Ashley Akbari, Marian Knight, Rachael Wood, Pia Hardelid, Luisa Zuccolo, Camille Harrison
• Genetically proxied lean mass and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: mendelian randomisation study (29 June, 2023)

  Iyas Daghlas, Malik Nassan, Dipender Gill
• Association between adiposity after diagnosis of prostate cancer and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis (25 June, 2023)

  Margarita Cariolou, Georgios Markozannes, Nerea Becerra-Tomás, Rita Vieira, Katia Balducci, Dagfinn Aune, David C Muller, Doris S M Chan, Konstantinos K Tsilidis
• Risk of admission to hospital with arterial or venous thromboembolism among patients diagnosed in the ambulatory setting with covid-19 compared with influenza: retrospective cohort study (6 June, 2023)

  Vincent Lo Re, Sarah K Dutcher, John G Connolly, Silvia Perez-Vilar, Dena M Carbonari, Terese A DeFor, Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Laura B Harrington, Laura Hou, Sean Hennessy, Rebecca A Hubbard, Maria E Kempner, Jennifer L Kuntz, Cheryl N McMahill-Walraven, Jolene Mosley, Pamala A Pawloski, Andrew B Petrone, Allyson M Pishko, Meighan Rogers Driscoll, Claudia A Steiner, Yunping Zhou, Noelle M Cocoros
• Association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and newly diagnosed hypertension during pregnancy: prospective, population based cohort study (24 May, 2023)

  Anne K. Örtqvist, Maria C. Magnus, Elisabeth Dahlqvist, Jonas Söderling, Kari Johansson, Anna Sandström, Siri E. Håberg, Olof Stephansson
• Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics (19 May, 2023)

  Louis Fisher, Lisa EM Hopcroft, Sarah Rodgers, James Barrett, Kerry Oliver, Anthony J Avery, Dai Evans, Helen Curtis, Richard Croker, Orla Macdonald, Jessica Morley, Amir Mehrkar, Sebastian Bacon, Simon Davy, Iain Dillingham, David Evans, George Hickman, Peter Inglesby, Caroline E Morton, Becky Smith, Tom Ward, William Hulme, Amelia Green, Jon Massey, Alex J Walker, Christopher Bates, Jonathan Cockburn, John Parry, Frank Hester, Sam Harper, Shaun O’Hanlon, Alex Eavis, Richard Jarvis, Dima Avramov, Paul Griffiths, Aaron Fowles, Nasreen Parkes, Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna
• Defining representativeness of study samples in medical and population health research (16 May, 2023)

  Jacqueline E Rudolph, Yongqi Zhong, Priya Duggal, Shruti H Mehta, Bryan Lau
• Changes in the care of acute cerebrovascular and cardiovascular conditions during the first year of the covid-19 pandemic in 746 hospitals in the USA: retrospective analysis (16 May, 2023)

  Raul G Nogueira, Katherine Etter, Thanh N Nguyen, Shelly Ikeme, Charlene Wong, Michael Frankel, Diogo C Haussen, Carlos Del Rio, Michael McDaniel, Rajesh Sachdeva, Chandan M Devireddy, Alhamza R Al-Bayati, Mahmoud H Mohammaden, Mohamed F Doheim, Agostinho C Pinheiro, Bernardo Liberato, Dinesh V Jillella, Nirav R Bhatt, Rahul Khanna
• Quantifying the impact of unmeasured confounding in observational studies with the E value (4 May, 2023)

  Tobias Gaster, Christine Marie Eggertsen, Henrik Støvring, Vera Ehrenstein, Irene Petersen
• Impact of work schedules of senior resident physicians on patient and resident physician safety: nationwide, prospective cohort study (12 April, 2023)

  Laura K Barger, Matthew D Weaver, Jason P Sullivan, Salim Qadri, Christopher P Landrigan, Charles A Czeisler
• Inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 case rates by ethnicity, religion, measures of socioeconomic position, English proficiency, and self-reported disability: cohort study of 39 million people in England during the alpha and delta waves (3 April, 2023)

  Tim Larsen, Matthew L Bosworth, Daniel Ayoubkhani, Ryan Schofield, Raghib Ali, Kamlesh Khunti, Ann Sarah Walker, Myer Glickman, Camille Harrison, Vahé Nafilyan
• Vascular thrombosis after single dose Ad26.COV2.S vaccine in healthcare workers in South Africa: open label, single arm, phase 3B study (Sisonke study) (24 March, 2023)

  Barry Frank Jacobson, Elise Schapkaitz, Azwi Takalani, Pradeep Rowji, Vernon Johan Louw, Jessica Opie, Linda-Gail Bekker, Nigel Garrett, Ameena Goga, Tarylee Reddy, Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma, Ian Sanne, Ishen Seocharan, Jonny Peter, Michelle Robinson, Shirley Collie, Amber Khan, Simbarashe Takuva, Glenda Gray
• Appraisal of the causal effect of plasma caffeine on adiposity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease: two sample mendelian randomisation study (14 March, 2023)

  Susanna C Larsson, Benjamin Woolf, Dipender Gill
• Reproductive outcomes in women and men conceived by assisted reproductive technologies in Norway: prospective registry based study (14 March, 2023)

  Ellen Øen Carlsen, Allen J Wilcox, Maria Christine Magnus, Hans Ivar Hanevik, Siri Eldevik Håberg
• Efficacy of first dose of covid-19 vaccine versus no vaccination on symptoms of patients with long covid: target trial emulation based on ComPaRe e-cohort (28 February, 2023)

  Viet-Thi Tran, Elodie Perrodeau, Julia Saldanha, Isabelle Pane, Philippe Ravaud
• Effect of covid-19 vaccination on long covid: systematic review (28 February, 2023)

  Oyungerel Byambasuren, Paulina Stehlik, Justin Clark, Kylie Alcorn, Paul Glasziou
• The interplay between inflammatory cytokines and cardiometabolic disease: bi-directional mendelian randomisation study (14 February, 2023)

  Ville Karhunen, Dipender Gill, Jian Huang, Emmanouil Bouras, Rainer Malik, Mark J Ponsford, Ari Ahola-Olli, Areti Papadopoulou, Saranya Palaniswamy, Sylvain Sebert, Matthias Wielscher, Juha Auvinen, Juha Veijola, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Markku Timonen, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Martin Dichgans, Marko Salmi, Sirpa Jalkanen, Terho Lehtimäki, Veikko Salomaa, Olli Raitakari, Simon A Jones, G Kees Hovingh, Konstantinos K Tsilidis, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Abbas Dehghan
• Sex differences in cardiovascular complications and mortality in hospital patients with covid-19: registry based observational study (13 February, 2023)

  Carinna Hockham, Marijke Linschoten, Folkert W Asselbergs, Chahinda Ghossein, Mark Woodward, Sanne A E Peters
• Clinical outcomes of myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in four Nordic countries: population based cohort study (1 February, 2023)

  Anders Husby, Hanne Løvdal Gulseth, Petteri Hovi, Jørgen Vinsløv Hansen, Nicklas Pihlström, Nina Gunnes, Tommi Härkänen, Jesper Dahl, Øystein Karlstad, Tiina Heliö, Lars Køber, Rickard Ljung, Anders Hviid
• Association between coeliac disease and cardiovascular disease: prospective analysis of UK Biobank data (30 January, 2023)

  Megan Conroy, Naomi Allen, Ben Lacey, Elizabeth Soilleux, Thomas Littlejohns
• Trends, variation, and clinical characteristics of recipients of antiviral drugs and neutralising monoclonal antibodies for covid-19 in community settings: retrospective, descriptive cohort study of 23.4 million people in OpenSAFELY (13 January, 2023)

  Amelia C A Green, Helen J Curtis, Rose Higgins, Linda Nab, Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, Rebecca M Smith, Amir Mehrkar, Peter Inglesby, Henry Drysdale, Nicholas J DeVito, Richard Croker, Christopher T Rentsch, Krishnan Bhaskaran, John Tazare, Bang Zheng, Colm D Andrews, Sebastian C J Bacon, Simon Davy, Iain Dillingham, David Evans, Louis Fisher, George Hickman, Lisa E M Hopcroft, William J Hulme, Jon Massey, Orla MacDonald, Jessica Morley, Caroline E Morton, Robin Y Park, Alex J Walker, Tom Ward, Milan Wiedemann, Christopher Bates, Jonathan Cockburn, John Parry, Frank Hester, Sam Harper, Ian J Douglas, Stephen J W Evans, Ben Goldacre, Laurie A Tomlinson, Brian MacKenna
• Metrics, baseline scores, and a tool to improve sponsor performance on clinical trial diversity: retrospective cross sectional study (5 January, 2023)

  Tanvee Varma, Michelle Mello, Joseph S Ross, Cary Gross, Jennifer Miller