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Researchers identified a test-negative design as the “least biased and most efficient” to measure COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in patients with chronic kidney disease, according to data in Kidney International.

For adults in Denmark, diagnosis of mental disorders led to a significant impact on the number of working years when compared with the general population, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Algorithm to identify patients with familial hypercholesterolemia from large health-care encounter databases.

Women with eating disorders are at an increased risk for adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes and should thus be recognized as a high-risk population among pregnant women, according to results of a population-based cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Patients who used proton pump inhibitors were at higher risk for developing cholangitis, according to study results.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection is associated with inferior patient clinical outcomes and greater burden of resource utilization compared with non-recurrent infections, according to a cohort study presented at ICAAC 2014.