Authors: Falk G. Bechara, M.D., of Ruhr-University Bochum in Bochum, Germany, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2021.3655)
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Authors: James A. Blumenthal, Ph.D., of the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
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Authors: Gregor B. Jemec, M.D., of Zealand University Hospital in Roskilde, Denmark, is the corresponding author.
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What The Study Did: This study suggests that 2020-2021 NFL and NCAA football games held with limited in-person attendance were not associated with substantial risk for increased local COVID-19 cases.
Authors: Turgay Ayer, Ph.D., of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19621)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated short-term reactions associated with COVID-19 vaccines among pregnant and lactating individuals compared with individuals neither pregnant nor lactating but planning pregnancy.
Authors: Alisa Kachikis, M.D., M.S., of the University of Washington in Seattle, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.21310)
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What The Study Did: This observational study’s findings don’t suggest an association between prenatal exposure to antipsychotics and risk of preterm birth and small for gestational age, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder in children.
Authors: Kenneth K.C. Man, Ph.D., of the UCL School of Pharmacy in London, and Ian C. K. Wong, Ph.D., of the University of Hong Kong, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4571)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined whether different forms of social support are associated with cognitive function and an early brain marker for vulnerability to Alzheimer disease.
Authors: Joel Salinas, M.D., M.B.A., M.Sc., of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.21122)
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Authors: Beth D. Darnall, Ph.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, is the corresponding author.
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What The Study Did: Medicare Advantage was compared with traditional Medicare by race and ethnicity in rates of access and quality by using survey data.
Authors: Kenton J. Johnston, Ph.D., M.P.H., of Saint Louis University, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.10413)
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What The Study Did: This survey study evaluated 20-year changes in the racial and ethnic differences in self-reported measures of health status, health care access and affordability among adults in the United States.
Authors: Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., S.M., of Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.9907)
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What The Study Did: Researchers estimated how health care spending for different types of care varied by race and ethnicity in the United States from 2002 through 2016.
Authors: Joseph L. Dieleman, Ph.D., of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.9937)
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What The Study Did: This analysis determined whether rates of gestational diabetes among individuals at their first live birth changed from 2011 to 2019 and how these rates differ by race and ethnicity in the U.S.
Authors: Sadiya S. Khan, M.D., M.Sc., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.7217)
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What The Study Did:In this study of 6,280 households, younger children may have greater risk of transmitting SARS-CoV-2 to caregivers and siblings in the household than older children.
Authors:Sarah A. Buchan, Ph.D., of Public Health Ontario in Toronto, Canada, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.2770)
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What The Study Did: Changes over the last three decades in the proportion of U.S. medical school faculty who self-identified as Black or African American were examined in this study.
Authors: Christopher L. Bennett, M.D., M.A., of the Stanford School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.10245)
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What The Study Did: This study evaluates symptoms following vaccination and antibody measurements in hospital workers who received an mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and had prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Authors:Amanda K. Debes, Ph.D., M.S., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4580)
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Authors: Jose Alexandre S. Crippa, Ph.D., of the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20603)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether certain factors, including cost and characteristics of the prescription drug, were associated with use of a manufacturer’s coupon at a pharmacy.
Authors: So-Yeon Kang, M.B.A., M.P.H., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.2123)
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What The Study Did: This survey study examined changes in insurance coverage and disparities in access to health care among low-income families and people of color across four Southern states during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Jose F. Figueroa, M.D., M.P.H., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.2007)
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Authors: Jesper Hoiberg Erichsen, M.D., Ph.D., of Rigshospitalet Glostrup in Glostrup, Denmark, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.2976)
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Authors: Robert Timmerman, M.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.3186)
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What The Study Did: Researchers describe the antispike IgG antibody response to the SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine (BioNTech-Pfizer) in patients with cancer compared with healthy controls about four months after the second vaccine dose.
Authors:Salomon M. Stemmer, M.D., of the Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.4390)
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What The Study Did:This observational study conducted at an urban hospital in Spain assesses the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the breast milk of women who received vaccines for COVID-19 and their correlation with serum antibody levels.
Authors: Vicens Diaz-Brito, M.D., Ph.D., of the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, in Barcelona, Spain, is the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20575)
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What The Study Did: This observational study examines outcomes of more than 869,000 women, including 18,715 women with COVID-19, who gave birth at 499 U.S. medical centers between March 2020, and February 2021. Women with COVID-19 had increased mortality, need for intubation and ventilation, and intensive care unit admission.
Authors: Ninh T. Nguyen, M.D. University of California, Irvine Medical Center, in Orange, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20456)
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What The Study Did: Researchers estimated changes in the number of mesothelioma cases and deaths associated with mesothelioma worldwide from 1990 to 2017. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer and exposure to asbestos a well-established risk factor.
Authors: Tianhui Chen, M.D., Ph.D., of the Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hangzhou, China, and Zhijun Dai, of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20360)
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What The Study Did: Claims data were used to examine the demographic characteristics and clinical settings of patients who receive a sunburn diagnosis.
Authors: Mackenzie R. Wehner, M.D., M.Phil., of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2021.2923)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the occurrence of myocarditis in 15 adolescents after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and reviewed the results of comprehensive cardiac imaging.
Authors: Audrey Dionne, M.D., of Boston Children’s Hospital, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2021.3471)
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What The Study Did: The association between total concentrations of the brain protein tau, physical activity and changes over time in the rate of cognitive decline was evaluated in this study. Tau develops abnormally in individuals with Alzheimer disease.
Authors: Pankaja Desai, Ph.D., of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20398)
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What The Study Did: Researchers used national survey data to estimate changes over the last two decades in the proportion of calories from ultraprocessed foods that children and teens in the United States are eating.
Authors: Fang Fang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., of Tufts University in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.10238)
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What The Study Did:The global estimates of child and adolescent mental illness observed in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in this study indicate that it is increasingly more common.
Authors:Sheri Madigan, Ph.D, R.Psych., of the University of Calgary in Canada, is the corresponding author.
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What The Study Did:For this study, population-based birth registry, laboratory and public health case data were used to describe SARS-CoV-2 testing outcomes among infants born during the COVID-19 pandemic and their mothers. The findings of this study suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection in early infancy is rare; however, ongoing surveillance is required to ensure the continued protection of newborns from SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.
Authors:Astrid Guttmann, M.D.C.M., M.Sc., of ICES in Toronto, Canada, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20150)
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Authors: Friederike Beker, M.D., of the University of Queensland in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.2336)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined whether there is an association between the implementation of state limits on the duration of initial opioid prescriptions and changes in prescribing.
Authors: Michael J. Brenner, M.D., of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4281)
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Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for gestational diabetes in asymptomatic pregnant individuals at 24 weeks or later and concludes that current evidence is insufficient to make a recommendation about screening before then. Gestational diabetes, which is diabetes that develops during pregnancy, increases the risk for maternal and fetal complications, including preeclampsia. The USPSTF routinely makes recommendations about the effectiveness of preventive care services and this statement is consistent with its 2014 recommendation.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.11922)
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What The Study Did: In this study including all incarcerated individuals in 14 Massachusetts state prisons from April 2020 to January 2021 (on average 6,876 people), COVID-19 incidence was significantly higher in prisons operating at a higher percentage of their capacity and was significantly lower in prisons where a higher proportion of the incarcerated were housed in single-cell units.
Authors: Amir M. Mohareb, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4392)
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What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated the SARS-CoV-2 spike immunoglobin (Ig) G antibody levels after one and two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine in previously infected individuals compared with those without previous infection.
Authors:James Moy, M.D., of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19741)
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What The Study Did: The association of COVID-19 and breast cancer screening in a safety-net hospital in San Francisco was evaluated by researchers in this study.
Authors: Ana I. Velazquez, M.D., M.Sc., of the National Clinician Scholars Program, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19929)
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About JAMA Heath Forum: JAMA Health Forum has transitioned from an information channel to an international, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that addresses health policy and strategies affecting medicine, health and health care. The journal publishes original research, evidence-based reports and opinion about national and global health policy; innovative approaches to health care delivery; and health care economics, access, quality, safety, equity and reform. Its distribution will be solely digital and all content will be freely available for anyone to read.
What The Study Did: Researchers compared rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for assault before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada.
Authors: Natasha Saunders, M.D., M.Sc., of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1983)
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About JAMA Heath Forum: JAMA Health Forum has transitioned from an information channel to an international, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that addresses health policy and strategies affecting medicine, health and health care. The journal publishes original research, evidence-based reports and opinion about national and global health policy; innovative approaches to health care delivery; and health care economics, access, quality, safety, equity and reform. Its distribution will be solely digital and all content will be freely available for anyone to read.
What The Study Did: Patients receiving care for mental health and substance use were asked about firearm access on a routine mental health questionnaire.
Authors: Julie E. Richards, Ph.D., M.P.H., of Kaiser Permanente Washington in Seattle, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1973)
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Authors: Ming Chen, M.D., of the Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology in Hangzhou, China, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.2705)
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Authors: Charles C. Wykoff, M.D., Ph.D., of Retina Consultants of Texas in Houston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.2809)
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What The Study Did: Researchers describe the type of eye injuries and the difficulties encountered as a result of the Port of Beirut blast in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, one of most powerful nonnuclear explosions in history.
Authors: Ramzi M. Alameddine, M.D., of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.2742)
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Authors: John P. Pierce, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Diego, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.21387)
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What The Study Did: This survey study explored whether there is an association between the importance of religious or spiritual beliefs and advance care planning choices among adults receiving dialysis.
Authors: Jennifer S. Scherer, M.D., of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19355)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined variation in international and national guidelines on respiratory protection for health care professionals in hospitals during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Gabriel Birgand, Ph.D., of Imperial College London, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19257)
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What The Study Did: This survey study compares firearm ownership and storage practices, opinions on firearm injury prevention strategies and perceptions of safety among adults in California households with and without children.
Authors: Rocco Pallin, M.P.H., of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19146)
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What The Study Did: Whether there are associations between opioid dose tapering and rates of overdose and mental health crisis among patients prescribed long-term, higher-dose opioids was assessed in this observational study.
Authors: Alicia Agnoli, M.D., M.P.H., M.H.S., of the University of California, Davis, in Sacramento, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.11013)
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Authors: Osvaldo P. Almeida, Ph.D., of the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.2418)
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Authors: Marc Ribo, M.D., Ph.D., of the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, Spain, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.2403)
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Authors: Louise Fleng Sandal, Ph.D., of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4097)
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What The Study Did: The association between the COVID-19 pandemic and prescription medication changes among nursing home residents in Ontario, Canada was examined in this study.
Authors: Colleen J. Maxwell, Ph.D., of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18441)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association of field position, career length and playing era with risk of neurodegenerative disease among Scottish male former professional soccer players.
Authors: William Stewart, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., of the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, United Kingdom, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.2403)
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What The Study Did: This study analyzes whether President Trump’s 2017 executive order 13769, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” (known as the “Muslim ban” executive order) was associated with changes in health care utilization by people born in targeted nations living in the United States.
Authors: Elizabeth A. Samuels, M.D., M.P.H., M.H.S., of the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18216)
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What The Study Did: Simulation models were used to estimate the COVID-19 pandemic control strategy associated with the least health losses and the most cost effectiveness in Victoria, Australia.
Authors: Tony Blakely, Ph.D., of the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1749)
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About JAMA Heath Forum: JAMA Health Forum has transitioned from an information channel to an international, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that addresses health policy and strategies affecting medicine, health and health care. The journal publishes original research, evidence-based reports and opinion about national and global health policy; innovative approaches to health care delivery; and health care economics, access, quality, safety, equity and reform. Its distribution will be solely digital and all content will be freely available for anyone to read.
About JAMA Heath Forum: JAMA Health Forum has transitioned from an information channel to an international, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that addresses health policy and strategies affecting medicine, health and health care. The journal publishes original research, evidence-based reports and opinion about national and global health policy; innovative approaches to health care delivery; and health care economics, access, quality, safety, equity and reform. Its distribution will be solely digital and all content will be freely available for anyone to read.
What The Study Did: This case series of three patients who died of COVID-19 shows presumed SARS-CoV-2 viral particles in various layers of the human retina, suggesting that they may be involved in some of the infection’s ocular clinical manifestations.
Authors: Alléxya A. A. Marcos, M.D., of the Federal University of São Paulo-UNIFESP in Brazil, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.2795)
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What The Study Did: This study describes numbers of patients awaiting and undergoing liver transplantation for acute alcohol-associated hepatitis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Therese Bittermann, M.D., of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18713)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examine the full one-year experience of cancer clinical trial enrollment after the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.
Authors: Joseph M. Unger, Ph.D., M.S., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18433)
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