2019
Outdoor temperature and survival benefit of empiric potassium in users of furosemide in US Medicaid enrollees: a cohort study
Nam Y, Bilker W, Leonard C, Bell M, Hennessy S. Outdoor temperature and survival benefit of empiric potassium in users of furosemide in US Medicaid enrollees: a cohort study. BMJ Open 2019, 9: e023809. PMID: 30777859, PMCID: PMC6398730, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023809.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAssociated with elevated all-cause mortalityMedicaid enrolleesElevated all-cause mortalitySurvival benefitYears prior to cohort entryAll-cause mortalityMedicare claimsCohort entryFurosemide prescriptionPropensity score matched cohortMedicaid claimsOutpatient settingScore-matched cohortNon-usersEnrolleesMedicaidStudy objectiveUS statesMortality rateMatched cohortPotassium depletionFurosemideMortalityCohortHeat-induced sweating
2015
Ambient Coarse Particulate Matter and Hospital Admissions in the Medicare Cohort Air Pollution Study, 1999–2010
Powell H, Krall JR, Wang Y, Bell ML, Peng RD. Ambient Coarse Particulate Matter and Hospital Admissions in the Medicare Cohort Air Pollution Study, 1999–2010. Environmental Health Perspectives 2015, 123: 1152-1158. PMID: 25872223, PMCID: PMC4629736, DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408720.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsYears of ageEmergency hospitalizationHospital admissionM3 increaseMedicare enrolleesRespiratory-related hospitalizationsTwo-stage Bayesian hierarchical modelSignificant increaseShort-term associationsCardiovascular hospitalizationMorbidity outcomesCardiovascular diseaseRespiratory diseaseHospitalizationShort-term exposureAmbient Coarse Particulate MatterPoisson log-linear regression modelsLog-linear regression modelCoarse particulate matterAdmissionAmbient coarseAssociationNumber of studiesDiseaseEnrollees