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Ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality and cardiovascular disease in England and Wales between 2020-2022

Authors: Pineda-Moncusí M, Allery F, Abbasizanjani H, et al.

Nature Communications,

A population-based cross-sectional investigation of COVID-19 hospitalizations and mortality among autistic people

Authors: Nijhof D, Sosenko F, Mackay D, et al.

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders,

Replicating a COVID-19 study in a national England database to assess the generalisability of research with regional electronic health record data

Authors: Williams R, Jenkins D, Bolton T, et al.

BMJ Open,

Burden of cardiovascular diseases from 2020 to 2024: a national cohort in NHS England

Authors: Allara E, Shi W, Bolton T, et al

Preprints with The Lancet,

Peripandemic outcomes of infants treated for sentinel congenital heart diseases in England and Wales

Authors: Huang Q, Lawlor D, Nolan J, et al.

Open Heart,

Hospital readmission after heart valve surgery in the United Kingdom

Authors: Chan J, Narayan P, Dong, T, et al.

JTCVS Open,

Prevalence and demographics of 331 rare diseases and associated COVID-19-related mortality among 58 million individuals: a nationwide retrospective observational study

Authors: Thygesen JH, Zhang H, Issa H, et al.

The Lancet Digital Health,

Use of sodium valproate and other antiseizure drug treatments in England and Wales: quantitative analysis of nationwide linked electronic health records

Authors: Dale C, Takhar R, Fan YY, et al

BMJ Medicine,

Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis

Authors: Mu Y, Dashtban A, Mizani MA, et al.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,

Risks of major arterial and venous thrombotic diseases after hospitalisation for influenza, pneumonia, and COVID-19: A population-wide cohort in 2.6 million people in Wales

Authors: Keene S, Abbasizanjani H, Torabi F, et al

Thrombosis Research,

Combinations of multiple long term conditions and risk of hospital admission or death during winter 2021-22 in England: population based cohort study

Authors: Islam, N, Shabnam, S, Khan, N, et al

BMJ Medicine,

Contemporary epidemiology of hospitalised heart failure with reduced versus preserved ejection fraction in England: a retrospective, cohort study of whole-population electronic health records

Authors: Fletcher R, Rockenschaub P, Neuen B, et al

The Lancet Public Health,

Association between ethnicity and emergency department visits in the last three months of life in England: a retrospective population-based study using electronic health records

Authors: Davies, J, Javiera, L, Chua, K.-C., et al

BMJ Public Health,

Trends in pediatric hospital admissions caused or contributed by SARS-CoV-2 infection in England

Authors: Wilde, H, Tomlinson, C, Mateen, B.A., et al

The Journal of Pediatrics,

The impact of COVID-19 vaccination on patients with congenital heart disease in England: a case-control study

Authors: Harrison C, Frain S, Jalalinajafabadi F, et al

Heart,

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular risk factors and events in England: a population-based cohort study

Authors: Bray B, O’Connell D, Robinson D, et al

Preprints with The Lancet,

COVID-19 diagnosis, vaccination during pregnancy, and adverse pregnancy outcomes of 865,654 women in England and Wales: a population-based cohort study.

Authors: Raffetti E, Bolton T, Nolan J et al.

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe,

The challenges of replication: a worked example of methods reproducibility using electronic health record data.

Authors: Williams R, Bolton T, Jenkins D et al.

medRxiv,

Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England.

Authors: Ip S, North T-L, Torabi F et al.

Nature Communications,

Vaccinations, cardiovascular drugs, hospitalisation and mortality in COVID-19 and Long COVID.

Authors: Dashtban A, Mizani MA, Pasea L et al.,

International Journal of Infectious Diseases.,

Risk of cardiovascular events following COVID-19 in people with and without pre-existing chronic respiratory disease.

Authors: Whittaker H, Kallis C, Bolton T et al

International Journal of Epidemiology,

A nationwide, population-based study on specialized care for acute heart failure throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authors: Cannata A, Mizani MA, Bromage DI et al.,

European Journal of Heart Failure,

Ethnicity data resource in population-wide health records: completeness, coverage and granularity of diversity.

Authors: Pineda-Moncusí M, Allery F, Delmestri A et al.,

Scientific Data,

Undervaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes: meta-analysis of national cohort studies in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Authors: The HDR UK COALESCE Consortium

The Lancet.,

Ensuring phenotyping algorithms using national electronic health records are FAIR: Meeting the needs of the cardiometabolic research community

Authors: BHF Data Science Centre

Zenodo,

Understanding covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual disabilities in England.

Authors: Sosenko F, Mackay D, Pell JP et al.

BMC Public Health,

e-Consent in UK academic-led clinical trials: current practice, challenges and the need for more evidence.

Authors: Mitchell EJ, Appelbe D, Bravery A et al.

BioMed Central,

Sars-Cov-2 infection in people with Type 1 diabetes and hospital admission: an analysis of risk factors for England.

Authors: Heald AH , Jenkins DA, Williams R et al

Cardiovascular imaging research priorities.

Authors: MacArthur JAL, Yong GL, Dweck MR et al

Openheart,

Public survey to identify the most important areas for research into cardiovascular disease.

Authors: MacArthur, JAL, Khan, S, Blakelock, P et al

Zenodo,

Antipsychotic drug prescribing and mortality in people with dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study in Wales, UK.

Authors: Schnier C, McCarthy A, Morales DR et al

The Lancet Healthy Longevity,

Use of NHS Digital datasets as trial data in the UK: a position paper.

Authors: Murray ML, Pinches H, Mafham M et al

Zenodo,

Charting a Course for Smartphones and Wearables to Transform Population Health Research.

Authors: Dixon WG, van der Veer SN, Mustafa Ali S et al

Journal of Medical Internet Research,

Harmonising electronic health records for reproducible research: challenges, solutions and recommendations from a UK-wide COVID-19 research collaboration.

Authors: Abbasizanjani H, Torabi F, Bedston S et al

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making,

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular disease prevention and management.

Authors: Dale CE, Takhar R, Carragher R et al

Nature Medicine,

Better End of Life 2022. Mind the gaps: understanding and improving out-of-hours care for people with advanced illness and their informal carers. Research report.

Authors: Pask, S, Davies JM, Mohamed A et al

Marie Curie,

Using national electronic health records for pandemic preparedness: validation of aparsimonious model for predicting excess deaths among those with COVID-19 – a datadriven retrospective cohort study.

Authors: Mizani MA, Dashtban A, Pasea L et al

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on secondary care for cardiovascular disease in the UK: an electronic health record analysis across three countries.

Authors: Wright FL, Cheema K, Goldacre R et al

European Heart Journal,

Association of COVID-19 with major arterial and venous thrombotic diseases: apopulation-wide cohort study of 48 million adults in England and Wales.

Authors: Knight R, Walker V, Ip S et al

Circulation,

Data provenance and integrity of health-care systems data for clinical trials.

Authors: Murray ML, Love SB, Carpenter JR et al

The Lancet,

Association of severe mental illness with stroke outcomes and process-of-care quality indicators: nationwide cohort study.

Authors: Fleetwood K, Wild SH, Smith DJ et al

Cambridge University Press,

Cathie Sudlow: Devoted to data.

Author: Watts, G

The Lancet,

Workshop report – How can we use imaging data to better understand cardiovascular disease?

Authors: MacArthur J, Aronson HE, Bai W et al

Zenodo,

Standardizing reporting of brain and central nervous system tumors in the United Kingdom.

Authors: Poon MTC, Brennan PM, Jin K et al

Neuro-oncology,

COVID-19 trajectories among 57 million adults in England: a cohort study using electronic health records.

Authors: Thygesen JH, Tomlinson C, Hollings S et al

The Lancet,

A retrospective cohort study measured predicting and validating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with chronic kidney disease.

Authors: Dashtban A, Mizani MA, Denaxas S et al

Kidney International,

Indirect effects of the pandemic: highlighting the need for data-driven policy and preparedness.

Authors: Amitava Banerjee, Cathie Sudlow, and Mark Lawler

Sage Journals,

How to facilitate the use of healthcare systems data in cardiovascular clinical trials.

Authors: BHF Data Science Centre

Zenodo,

Risk of myocarditis and pericarditis following BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 COVID-19 vaccinations.

Authors: Goddard K, Lewis N, Fireman B et al

medRxiv,

Evaluation of antithrombotic use and COVID-19 outcomes in a nationwide atrial fibrillation cohort.

Authors: Handy A, Banerjee A, Wood AM et al

Heart,

Workshop report – How can consumer wearables transform our understanding of cardiovascular disease.

Authors: British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre

Zenodo,

A nationwide deep learning pipeline to predict stroke and COVID-19 death in atrial fibrillation.

Authors: Handy A, Wood A, Sudlow C et al

medRxiv,

Excess deaths in people with cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authors: Banerjee A, Chen S, Pasea L et al

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology,

Raised cardiovascular disease mortality after central nervous system tumour diagnosis: analysis of 171 926 patients from UK and USA.

Authors: Jin K, Brennan PM, Poon MTC et al

Society of NeuroOncology,

Data Enabled Trials Report.

Authors: MacArthur J, Morrice L, Sudlow C et al

Zenodo,

A strategy to reduce the carbon footprint of clinical trials.

Authors: Adsheada F, Al-Shahi Salmanb R, Aumonierc S et al

The Lancet,

Realising the full potential of data-enabled trials in the UK: a call for action.

Authors: Sydes MR, Barbachano Y, Bowman L et al

BMJ,

Accessing routinely collected health data to improve clinical trials: recent experience of access.

Authors: Macnair A, Love SB, Murray ML et al

Trials,

How do we bring data and its outputs to life.

Authors: Laidlaw L

The BMJ Opinion ,

Linked electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort of more than 54million people in England: data resource.

Authors: Wood A, Denholm R, Hollings S et al

BMJ,

Development and validation of the ISARIC 4C Deterioration model for adults hospitalised with COVID-19: a prospective cohort study.

Authors: Gupta R, Harrison EM, Ho A et al

The Lancet,

Monitoring indirect impact of COVID-19 pandemic on services for cardiovascular diseases in the UK.

Authors: Ball S, Banerjee A, Berry C et al

BMJ,

Tracking Excess Deaths (TRACKED) – an interactive online tool to monitor excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.

Authors: Poon MTC, Brennan PM, Jin K et al

Wellcome Open Res,

Distinguishing between direct and indirect consequences of covid-19.

Authors: Figueroa JD, Brennan PM, Theodoratou E et al

BMJ,

Using imaging to combat a pandemic: rationale for developing the UK National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database.

Authors: Jacob J, Alexander D, Baillie JK et al

European Respiratory Journal,