Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

Congrats to our research fellow Luke Grosvenor, who received a third-place award for best poster presentation at the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Society annual meeting. He shared his work studying prenatal stress and autism-related traits, using data from the ECHO child health project.

It was wonderful to see this new study led by Luis A. Rodriguez published in the American Diabetes Association journal Diabetes Care covered so well by Catherine Ho in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/gDKQKFEU

A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes typically means a future of blood sugar monitoring and glucose-lowering medications. But interest is growing in identifying which people with diabetes might be able to stop taking their medications and control their disease with diet and exercise alone. Research led by Luis A. Rodriguez published in the American Diabetes Association journal Diabetes Care sheds light on the patients most likely to reach this goal. Read the news story: https://lnkd.in/gddTP593 Co-authors include Julie Schmittdiel, Romain Neugebauer, and Wendy Dyer of Kaiser Permanente Division of Research; Lisa Gilliam of The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., Barune Thapa of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, David Arterburn, MD, MPH, of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Patrick O’Connor, MD, MA, MPH, Stephanie Hooker, PhD, MPH, Margaret Nolan, MD, MS, and Gregg Simonson, PhD, of HealthPartners; Jaejin An, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Evaluation; Andrea Cassidy-Bushrow, PhD, of Henry Ford Health; Caryn Oshiro, PhD, RD, at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Integrated Health Care Research; Tainayah Thomas, PhD, MPH, of Stanford University; and Sarah Dombrowski, PharmD, of Geisinger.

Kudos to David Ouyang, MD, of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, and The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., and his research colleagues on their $5 million funding award from the American Heart Association to explore ways to use AI to accelerate and improve screening and treatment for cardiovascular disease. The study's 4 clinical trial sites include Kaiser Permanente with research partners Andrew Ambrosy, MD, Ankeet S. Bhatt, MD, MBA, and Alan Go, MD; Stanford Health Care Center, with research partners Alexander Sandhu, MD, and Jason Hom, MD; Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, with research partners Alan Kwan, MD, and Susan Cheng, MD; and Mass General Brigham, with research partners Long Nguyen, MD, @Tracey Simon, MD, and Emily Lau, MD. News story: https://lnkd.in/gPRMCTY6

A new study led by Ankeet S. Bhatt, MD, MBA, and Kyung H. Min, MD, of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. published today in American College of Cardiology journal JACC provides important new insights on patients with heart failure with an improved ejection fraction. Read our news story: https://lnkd.in/gtsMgbi3 Paper and invited editorial: https://lnkd.in/gCHZtXGc

This new study in Supportive Care in Cancer highlights the significant role palliative care plays in improving quality of life by keeping people with advanced cancer out of the emergency room for pain management. Kudos to Joel Nortey, Shiyun Zhu, Andrew Lynch, Hannah Whitehead, Nirmala Ramalingam, Raymond Liu, Juleon Rabbani, DrPH, the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, and the Kaiser Permanente Biostatistical Consulting Unit! Read their paper here: https://lnkd.in/gJQ-GnAB

Our researcher Jacek Skarbinski's paper this week in JAMA Oncology showing less risk of COVID-19 hospitalization for cancer patients who get a booster shot is getting attention. He is interviewed in Contagion Live: https://lnkd.in/eQhUprEM and also in Patient Power: https://lnkd.in/ghPKi9bU Along with other coverage: *MedPage Today: https://lnkd.in/gT6UbFPP *AJMC: https://lnkd.in/gQHWHKKH *CIDRAP: https://lnkd.in/gMXpngSh *StudyFinds: https://lnkd.in/gqNaQNUT

A growing number of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander young adults living in northern California have obesity. The findings from a large new study led by Joan Lo, MD, and Alan Go, MD, physicians and research scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., were published in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association.   Read the news story on our Research Spotlight: https://lnkd.in/gDGU7aKJ

Cancer patients are particularly vulnerable to hospitalization if they get COVID-19. But people being treated for cancer don't always keep up with vaccinations and boosters. Our researchers Jacek Skarbinski and Lawrence Kushi, and collaborators with NCI's Serological Sciences Network, have a new study in JAMA Oncology that shows lower risk of hospitalization with COVID-19 among cancer patients who have been vaccinated and received boosters against COVID-19. Read more in our Research Spotlight story. https://lnkd.in/gGtsdpeQ

Which treatment regimens are best for eradicating Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)? A research team led by Dan Li and Douglas Corley of The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. and Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, answered this question in a new study published this week in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)'s journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Read more in our DOR news story: https://lnkd.in/gh4XN29m