2024
Hypertension Trends and Disparities Over 12 Years in a Large Health System: Leveraging the Electronic Health Records
Brush J, Lu Y, Liu Y, Asher J, Li S, Sawano M, Young P, Schulz W, Anderson M, Burrows J, Krumholz H. Hypertension Trends and Disparities Over 12 Years in a Large Health System: Leveraging the Electronic Health Records. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2024, 13: e033253. PMID: 38686864, PMCID: PMC11179912, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.123.033253.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectronic health recordsRegional health systemImprove hypertension careHealth systemHealth recordsHypertension careDiastolic blood pressureAge-adjusted prevalence ratesNon-Hispanic Black patientsPrevalence ratesLarger health systemCross-sectional analysisTransformation of medical dataLeveraging real-world dataHigh prevalence rateHypertension trendsHypertension prevalenceBlood pressureBlood pressure measurementsHypertension diagnosisPrimary outcomeNational trendsProportion of patientsAntihypertensive medicationsBlack patients
2020
Electrocardiographic ST-T Abnormities Are Associated With Stroke Risk in the REGARDS Study
Sawano M, Yuan Y, Kohsaka S, Inohara T, Suzuki T, Okamura T, Howard G, Howard V, Judd S, Soliman E, Cushman M. Electrocardiographic ST-T Abnormities Are Associated With Stroke Risk in the REGARDS Study. Stroke 2020, 51: 1100-1106. PMID: 32126939, PMCID: PMC7122793, DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.119.028069.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIschemic strokeREGARDS studyMultivariable Cox proportional hazards regressionIncident coronary artery diseaseCox proportional hazards regressionAge-adjusted incidence ratesCalculate hazard ratiosFuture ischemic strokeIncident ischemic strokeMinnesota ECG ClassificationStroke risk factorsRisk of strokeCoronary artery diseaseProportional hazards regressionCoronary heart diseaseMinor ECG abnormalitiesNonspecific ST-segmentT-wave abnormalitiesIncident strokePrior strokeArtery diseaseHazard ratioStroke riskHazards regressionBaseline ECG