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Ahmed, S. T., Mahtta, D., Rehman, H., Akeroyd, J., Al Rifai, M., Rodriguez, F., Jneid, H., Nasir, K., Samad, Z., Alam, M., Petersen, L. A., & Virani, S. S. (2020). Association between frequency of primary care provider visits and evidence-based statin prescribing and statin adherence: Findings from the Veterans Affairs system. American Heart Journal, 221, 9–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2019.11.019
Albrecht, C. M., Vorlander, S., Hess, T., & Murray, D. R. (2019). The influence of agent orange on the development of post-heart transplantation malignancy in the veteran population. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 25(8), S163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2019.07.465
Almarzooq, Z., Patel, B., McGregor, P.-C., & Aragam, J. (2019). Partial atrioventricular canal defect with an anomalous left circumflex coronary artery in an elderly veteran. JACC: Case Reports, 1(3), 291–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.08.005
Anderson, T. S., Leonard, S., Zhang, A. J., Madden, E., Mowery, D., Chapman, W. W., & Keyhani, S. (2020). Trends in low-value carotid imaging in the Veterans Health Administration from 2007 to 2016. JAMA Network Open, 3(9), e2015250–e2015250. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15250
Bagai, J., Little, B., & Banerjee, S. (2018). Association between arterial access site and anticoagulation strategy on major bleeding and mortality: A historical cohort analysis in the veteran population. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, 19(B), 95–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carrev.2017.06.005
Banoei, M. M., Iupe, I., Bazaz, R. D., Campos, M., Vogel, H. J., Winston, B. W., & Mirsaeidi, M. (2019). Metabolomic and metallomic profile differences between veterans and civilians with pulmonary sarcoidosis. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 19584. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56174-8
Barwinska, D., Traktuev, D. O., Merfeld‐Clauss, S., Cook, T. G., Lu, H., Petrache, I., & March, K. L. (2018). Cigarette smoking impairs adipose stromal cell vasculogenic activity and abrogates potency to ameliorate ischemia. STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, 856–867. https://doi.org/10.1002/stem.2813@10.1002/(ISSN)2157-6580.Adipose-Tissue-Collection-2018
Bazemore, K. E., Barker, M., Morgan, B. T., & Goode, V. (2019). Utilization of the stop-bang questionnaire as a standardized screening tool for obstructive sleep apnea in Veteran Administration surgical patients. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 34(1), 60–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2017.11.006
Bress, A. P., Dodson, J. A., King, J. B., Sauer, B. C., Reese, T., Crook, J., … LaFleur, J. (2018). Clinical and economic outcomes of ranolazine versus conventional antianginals users among veterans with chronic stable angina pectoris. The American Journal of Cardiology, 122(11), 1809–1816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.08.027
Canales, M. T., Holzworth, M., Bozorgmehri, S., Ishani, A., Weiner, I. D., Berry, R. B., Beyth, R. J., & Gumz, M. (2019). Clock gene expression is altered in veterans with sleep apnea. Physiological Genomics, 51(3), 77–82. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiolgenomics.00091.2018
Dent, K. R., Griffin, C. A., McCarthy, J. F., & Katz, I. R. (2020). Hypertension treatment modality and suicide risk among veterans in Veterans Health Administration care from 2015 to 2017. JAMA Network Open, 3(10), e2020330. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20330
Dimcheff, D. E., Schildhouse, R. J., Hausman, M. S., Vincent, B. M., Markovitz, E., Chensue, S. W., Deng, J., McLeod, M., Hagan, D., Russell, J., & Bradley, S. F. (2020). Seroprevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among Veterans Affairs healthcare system employees suggests higher risk of infection when exposed to SARS-CoV-2 outside the work environment. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1220
Djoussé, L., Ho, Y.-L., Nguyen, X.-M. T., Quaden, R. M., Gagnon, D. R., Gaziano, J. M., & Cho, K. (2020). Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease in the Million Veteran Program. Clinical Nutrition, 39(9), 2842–2847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2019.12.017
Dores, H., Gonçalves, P. de A., Monge, J., Costa, R., Tátá, L., Cardim, N., Neuparth, N., & Sharma, S. (2020). Coronary atherosclerotic burden in veteran male recreational athletes with low to intermediate cardiovascular risk. Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 39(10), 587–594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repc.2019.10.009
Dores, H., Gonçalves, P. de A., Monge, J., Costa, R., Tátá, L., Malhotra, A., Sharma, S., Cardim, N., & Neuparth, N. (2020). Subclinical coronary artery disease in veteran athletes: Is a new preparticipation methodology required? British Journal of Sports Medicine, 54(6), 349–353. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099840
Dursa, E. K., Tadesse, B. E., Carter, C. E., Culpepper, W. J., Schneiderman, A. I., & Rumm, P. D. (2020). Respiratory illness among Gulf War and Gulf War era veterans who use the Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 63(11), 980–987. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23172
Fudim, M., Carlisle, M. A., Devaraj, S., Ajam, T., Ambrosy, A. P., Pokorney, S. D., Al‐Khatib, S. M., & Kamalesh, M. (2020). One-year mortality after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement within the Veterans Affairs health system. European Journal of Heart Failure, 22(5), 859–867. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1755
Gunja, A., Stanislawski, M. A., Barón, A. E., Maddox, T. M., Bradley, S. M., & Vidovich, M. I. (2018). The implications of cocaine use and associated behaviors on adverse cardiovascular outcomes among veterans: Insights from the VA Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking (CART) Program. Clinical Cardiology, 41(6), 809–816. https://doi.org/10.1002/clc.22961
Honerlaw, J. P., Ho, Y.-L., Nguyen, X.-M. T., Cho, K., Vassy, J. L., Gagnon, D. R., O’Donnell, C. J., Gaziano, J. M., Wilson, P. W. F., & Djousse, L. (2020). Fried food consumption and risk of coronary artery disease: The Million Veteran Program. Clinical Nutrition, 39(4), 1203–1208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2019.05.008
Jia, X., Ramsey, D. J., Rifai, M. A., Ahmed, S. T., Akeroyd, J. M., Dixon, D. L., Gluckman, T. J., Nambi, V., Ballantyne, C. M., Petersen, L. A., Stone, N. J., & Virani, S. S. (2020). Impact of lipid monitoring on treatment intensification of cholesterol lowering therapies (from the Veterans Affairs healthcare system). The American Journal of Cardiology, 125(6), 874–879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.12.030
Jones, M. M., Winthrop, K. L., Nelson, S. D., Duvall, S. L., Patterson, O. V., Nechodom, K. E., … Fennelly, K. P. (2018). Epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. PLOS ONE, 13(6), e0197976. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197976
Kern, R. S., Reddy, L. F., Cohen, A. N., Young, A. S., & Green, M. F. (2020). Effects of aerobic exercise on cardiorespiratory fitness and social functioning in veterans 40 to 65 years old with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 291, 113258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113258
Khazdair, M. R., Rezaeetalab, F., Rafatpanah, H., & Boskabady, M. H. (2020). The effect of Zataria Multiflora on inflammatory cytokine and respiratory symptoms in veterans exposed to sulfur mustard. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27(18), 22451–22460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08855-5
Kresevic, D. M., pallaki, m., Burant, C. J., Gideon, C., Schroeder, E., & Chen, P. (2019). Sleep apnea associated comorbidities and mortality in an older veteran population. Innovation in Aging, 3(S1), S263–S264. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.982
Krishnamurthi, N., Francis, J., Fihn, S. D., Meyer, C. S., & Whooley, M. A. (2018). Leading causes of cardiovascular hospitalization in 8.45 million US veterans. PLOS ONE, 13(3), e0193996. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193996
Larsson, S. C., Mason, A. M., Bäck, M., Klarin, D., Damrauer, S. M., Program, M. V., Michaëlsson, K., & Burgess, S. (2020). Genetic predisposition to smoking in relation to 14 cardiovascular diseases. European Heart Journal, 41(35), 3304–3310. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa193
Mar, P. L., Barmeda, M., Stucky, M. A., Devabahktuni, S. R., Garlie, J., Miller, J. M., & Jain, R. (2020). Unique features of epicardial ventricular arrhythmias/premature ventricular complexes ablated from coronary venous system in veteran population. Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal, 20(3), 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipej.2020.02.001
Mowery, A., Light, T., & Clayburgh, D. (2018). Venous thromboembolism incidence in head and neck surgery patients: Analysis of the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) database. Oral Oncology, 77, 22–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oraloncology.2017.12.002
Myers, J., Doom, R., King, R., Fonda, H., Chan, K., Kokkinos, P., & Rehkopf, D. H. (2018). Association between cardiorespiratory fitness and health care costs: The Veterans Exercise Testing Study. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 93(1), 48–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2017.09.019
Orkaby, A. R., Driver, J. A., Ho, Y.-L., Lu, B., Costa, L., Honerlaw, J., Galloway, A., Vassy, J. L., Forman, D. E., Gaziano, J. M., Gagnon, D. R., Wilson, P. W. F., Cho, K., & Djousse, L. (2020). Association of statin use with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in US veterans 75 Years and older. JAMA, 324(1), 68–78. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.7848
Owlia Mina, Dodson John A., King Jordan B., Derington Catherine G., Herrick Jennifer S., Sedlis Steven P., Crook Jacob, DuVall Scott L., LaFleur Joanne, Nelson Richard, Patterson Olga V., Shah Rashmee U., & Bress Adam P. (2019). Angina severity, mortality, and healthcare utilization among veterans with stable angina. Journal of the American Heart Association, 8(15), e012811. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.119.012811
Papademetriou, V., Stavropoulos, K., Kokkinos, P., Doumas, M., Imprialos, K., Thomopoulos, C., Faselis, C., & Tsioufis, C. (2020). Left ventricular hypertrophy and mortality risk in male veteran patients at high cardiovascular risk. The American Journal of Cardiology, 125(6), 887–893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.12.029
Santos, C. J., & Stevens, R. R. (2020). Gulf War syndrome: Respiratory and psychiatric distress in a Gulf War veteran. American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal, 15(4), 26–28. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2020.150415
Selby, L. D., Park-Egan, B. A. M., & Winges, K. M. (2020). Temporal artery biopsy in the workup of giant cell arteritis: Diagnostic considerations in a veterans administration cohort. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, 40(4), 450–456. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNO.0000000000001040
Shahrir, S., Crothers, K., McGinnis, K. A., Chan, K. C. G., Baeten, J. M., Wilson, S. M., Butt, A. A., Pisani, M. A., Baldassarri, S. R., Justice, A., & Williams, E. C. (2020). Receipt and predictors of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy among veterans with and without HIV. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 63(2), 118–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2020.01.003
Silva, C. G. de S. de, Kokkinos, P., Doom, R., Loganathan, D., Fonda, H., Chan, K., … Myers, J. (2018). Association between cardiorespiratory fitness, obesity, and health care costs: The veterans exercise testing study. International Journal of Obesity, 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0257-0
Smith, T. W., Baron, C. E., Caska-Wallace, C. M., Knobloch-Fedders, L. M., Renshaw, K. D., & Uchino, B. N. (2020). PTSD in veterans, couple behavior, and cardiovascular response during marital conflict. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000727
Stein, B., Ward, T., Hale, G., & Lyver, E. (2020). Safety of high-intensity statins in the veteran population: Atorvastatin 40 to 80 mg compared with Rosuvastatin 20 to 40 mg. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 54(5), 405–413. https://doi.org/10.1177/1060028019888487
van Aalst, R., Russo, E. M., Neupane, N., Mahmud, S. M., Wilschut, J., Samson, S. I., Chit, A., Postma, M., & Young-Xu, Y. (2020). Comparing the impact of high-dose versus standard dose influenza vaccines on hospitalization cost for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: Economic assessment in the US veteran population during 5 respiratory seasons using an instrumental variable method. Vaccine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.080
Wang, Y. (2019). How does veteran status affect risk of cardiovascular diseases? [Thesis, Iowa State University]. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/creativecomponents/354
Wallace, D. M., & Wohlgemuth, W. K. (2019). Predictors of insomnia severity index profiles in United States veterans with obstructive sleep apnea. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 15(12), 1827–1837. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.8094
Weeda, E. R., Bishu, K. G., Ward, R., Axon, R. N., Taber, D. J., & Gebregziabher, M. (2020). Joint effect of race/ethnicity or location of residence and sex on low density lipoprotein-cholesterol among veterans with type 2 diabetes: A 10-year retrospective cohort study. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 20(1), 449. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-020-01730-8
Williams, E. C., Bryson, C. L., Sun, H., Au, D. H., & Bradley, K. A. (2018). Association between alcohol use and angina symptoms among outpatients from the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 12(2), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1097/ADM.0000000000000379
Woldanski, L. M., Schlick, C., Bentrem, D. J., & Abbott, D. E. (2019). Veteran adherence to VTE prophylaxis: Does it even matter? Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 229(4), e205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.08.1300
Yiaslas, T. A., Taylor, J., Embree, J., & Schaefer, S. (2019). Elimination of angina, comprehensive cardio-metabolic risk reduction, and 50-pound weight loss in a US Navy veteran with myasthenia gravis. International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, 1(1), 7 pp-7 pp.
Ying, D., Gianfrancesco, M. A., Trupin, L., Yazdany, J., Greidinger, E. L., & Schmajuk, G. (2020). Increased risk of ischemic stroke in systemic sclerosis: A national cohort study of US veterans. The Journal of Rheumatology, 47(1), 82–88. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.181311
Young-Xu, Y., Smith, J., Mahmud, S. M., Aalst, R. V., Thommes, E. W., Neupane, N., Lee, J. K. H., & Chit, A. (2020). Laboratory-confirmed influenza infection and acute myocardial infarction among United States senior veterans. Plos One, 15(12), e0243248. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243248
Zhou, J. J., Schwenke, D. C., Bahn, G., & Reaven, P. (2018). Glycemic variation and cardiovascular risk in the Veterans Affairs diabetes trial. Diabetes Care, 41(10), 2187–2194. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc18-0548
Cardiovascular Disease
Bick, A. G., Akwo, E., Robinson-Cohen, C., Lee, K., Lynch, J., Assimes, T. L., DuVall, S., Edwards, T., Fang, H., Freiberg, S. M., Giri, A., Huffman, J. E., Huang, J., Hull, L., Kember, R. L., Klarin, D., Lee, J. S., Levin, M., Miller, D. R., Natarajan, P., Saleheen, D., Shao, Q., Sun, Y. V., Tang, H., Wilson, O., Chang, K., Cho, K., Concato, J., Gaziano, M., Kathiresan, S., O’Donnell, C. J., Rader, D. J., Tsao, P. S., Wilson, P. W., Hung, A. M., & Damrauer, S. M. (2019). Association of APOL1 risk alleles with cardiovascular disease in blacks in the Million Veteran Program. Circulation, 140(12), 1031–1040. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.036589
Cavanagh, C. E., Rosman, L., Chui, P. W., Bastian, L., Brandt, C., Haskell, S., & Burg, M. M. (2020). Barriers to cardiovascular disease preventive behaviors among OEF/OIF/OND women and men veterans. Health Psychology, 39(4), 298–306. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000844
Cuti, E. C., Dika, Z., Hrsak, L. D., Jelakovic, A., Mikulec, M., Pozgaj, F., … Jelakovic, B. (2018). High cardiovascular risk in military veterans; cardiovascular health in Croatian Veterans Project: Results of the pilot study. Journal of Hypertension, 36, e300. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.hjh.0000539875.27540.3d
Dyball, D., Evans, S., Boos, C. J., Stevelink, S. A. M., & Fear, N. T. (2019). The association between PTSD and cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in male veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts: A systematic review. International Review of Psychiatry, 31(1), 34–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2019.1580686
Groeneveld, P. W., Medvedeva, E. L., Walker, L., Segal, A. G., Richardson, D. M., & Epstein, A. J. (2018). Outcomes of care for ischemic heart disease and chronic heart failure in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA Cardiology, 3(7), 563–571. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2018.1115
Hinojosa, R. (2018). Cardiovascular disease among United States military veterans: Evidence of a waning healthy soldier effect using the National Health Interview Survey. Chronic Illness, 1742395318785237. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395318785237
Hinojosa, R. (2019). Sex, age, race/ethnicity, veteran status, and the likelihood of reporting cardiovascular conditions in the national health interview survey. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 34(3), 215–221. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0000000000000561
Hinojosa, R. (2019). Veterans’ likelihood of reporting cardiovascular disease. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 32(1), 50–57. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2019.01.180148
Hinojosa, R. (2020). Cardiovascular disease among United States military veterans: Evidence of a waning healthy soldier effect using the National Health Interview Survey. Chronic Illness, 16(1), 55–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395318785237
Kotagal, V., Albin, R. L., Müller, M. L. T. M., & Bohnen, N. I. (2018). Cardiovascular risk factor burden in veterans and non-veterans with Parkinson disease. Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 8(1), 153–160. https://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-171271
McDaniel, J. T., Davis, J., Anton, P. M., Godfrey, K., Albright, D., Thomas, K. H., Fletcher, K. L., & Nuhu, K. (2019). Physical activity and mental distress among veteran cancer survivors with heart disease and diabetes. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 5(2), 67–74. https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh.2018-0010
O’Malley, P. G., Arnold, M. J., Kelley, C., Spacek, L., Buelt, A., Natarajan, S., Donahue, M. P., Vagichev, E., Ballard-Hernandez, J., Logan, A., Thomas, L., Ritter, J., Neubauer, B. E., & Downs, J. R. (2020). Management of dyslipidemia for cardiovascular disease risk reduction: Synopsis of the 2020 updated U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense clinical practice guideline. Annals of Internal Medicine, 173(10), 822–829. https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-4648
Raghavan, S., Ho, Y.-L., Vassy, J. L., Posner, D., Honerlaw, Costa, L., Phillips, L. S., Gagnon, D. R., Wilson, P. W. F., & Cho, K. (2020). Optimizing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk estimation for veterans with diabetes mellitus. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 13(9), e006528. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.120.006528
Srivastava, P., Butler, J., Shroyer, A. L., Lacey, M., & Parikh, P. B. (2018). Impact of depressive disorder on access and quality of care in veterans with prevalent cardiovascular disease. The American Journal of Cardiology, 121(12), 1629–1633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.02.048
Stewart, J. C., Polanka, B. M., So-Armah, K. A., White, J. R., Gupta, S. K., Kundu, S., Chang, C.-C. H., & Freiberg, M. S. (2020). Associations of total, cognitive/affective, and somatic depressive symptoms and antidepressant use with cardiovascular disease–relevant biomarkers in HIV: Veterans aging cohort study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(5), 461–470. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000808
Vainshelboim, B., Chan, K., Chen, Z., & Myers, J. (2020). Cardiorespiratory fitness and cancer in men with cardiovascular disease: Analysis from the veterans exercise testing study. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 2047487320916595. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487320916595
Vassy, J. L., Lu, B., Ho, Y.-L., Galloway, A., Raghavan, S., Honerlaw, J., Tarko, L., Russo, J., Qazi, S., Orkaby, A. R., Tanukonda, V., Djousse, L., Gaziano, J. M., Gagnon, D. R., Cho, K., & Wilson, P. W. F. (2020). Estimation of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk among patients in the Veterans Affairs health care system. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e208236. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8236
Ward-Caviness, C. K., Kraus, W. E., Colette, B., Haynes, C. S., Lynn, M. M., Devlin, R., … Hauser, E. R. (2018). Associations between residential proximity to traffic and vascular disease in a cardiac catheterization cohort. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 38(1), 275–282. https://doi.org/10.1161/ATVBAHA.117.310003
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Myers, J., Doom, R., King, R., Fonda, H., Chan, K., Kokkinos, P., & Rehkopf, D. H. (2018). Association between cardiorespiratory fitness and health care costs: The Veterans Exercise Testing Study. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 93(1), 48–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2017.09.019
Silva, C. G. de S. de, Kokkinos, P., Doom, R., Loganathan, D., Fonda, H., Chan, K., … Myers, J. (2018). Association between cardiorespiratory fitness, obesity, and health care costs: The veterans exercise testing study. International Journal of Obesity, 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0257-0
Cerebrovascular Disease
McBride, C. L., Akeroyd, J. M., Ramsey, D. J., Nambi, V., Nasir, K., Michos, E. D., … Virani, S. S. (2018). Statin prescription rates and their facility-level variation in patients with peripheral artery disease and ischemic cerebrovascular disease: Insights from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Vascular Medicine, 23(3), 232–240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1358863X18758914
Cholesterol
Rodriguez, F., Knowles, J. W., Maron, D. J., Virani, S. S., & Heidenreich, P. A. (2018). Frequency of statin use in patients with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≥190 mg/dl from the Veterans Affairs health system. The American Journal of Cardiology, 122(5), 756–761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.05.008
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Bergman, B. P., Mackay, D. F., & Pell, J. P. (2018). Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Scottish military veterans. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 164(1), 25–29. https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2016-000729
Brostow, D. P., Warsavage, T. J., Abbate, L. M., Starosta, A. J., Brenner, L. A., Plomondon, M. E., & Valle, J. A. (2019). Mental illness and obesity among veterans undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the VA CART program. Clinical Obesity, 9(2), e12300. https://doi.org/10.1111/cob.12300
Formiga, M. F., Vital, I., Urdaneta, G., Campos, M. A., & Cahalin, L. P. (2019). Beyond inspiratory muscle strength: Clinical utility of single-breath work capacity assessment in veterans with COPD. Respiratory Medicine, 147, 13–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2018.12.012
Pleasants, R., Bedoya, A., Kundich, R., Reihman, A., Welty-Wolf, K., & Tighe, R. (2018). Combined idiopathic interstitial pneumonia(IIP) and emphysema(E) in the Veterans Administration(VA) health system: Characteristics, tobacco use, and outcomes. European Respiratory Journal, 52(S62), PA2207. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2018.PA2207
Savani, R., Patil, M., Tariq, A., & Mador, M. J. (2020). A retrospective observational study of domiciliary oxygen usage in a subset of veterans. Respiratory Care, 65(11), 1694–1701. https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.07179
Coronary Artery Disease
Akosile, W., Voisey, J., Lawford, B., Colquhounc, D., Young, R. M., & Mehta, D. (2018). The inflammasome NLRP12 is associated with both depression and coronary artery disease in Vietnam veterans. Psychiatry Research, 270, 775–779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.10.051
Fleming, R. M., Fleming, M. R., Harrington, G., McKusick, A., & Chaudhuri, T. (2018). USVAH study demonstrates statistically significant improvement in diagnosis and care of US veterans using FMTVDM-FHRWW. Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Therapy.
Heart Failure
Aparicio-Ugarriza, R., Salguero, D., Mohammed, Y. N., Ferri-Guerra, J., Baskaran, D. J., Mirabbasi, S. A., Rodriguez, A., & Ruiz, J. G. (2020). Is vitamin D deficiency related to a higher risk of hospitalization and mortality in veterans with heart failure? Maturitas, 132, 30–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2019.11.005
Bansal, N., Matheny, M. E., Greevy, R. A., Eden, S. K., Perkins, A. M., Parr, S. K., … Siew, E. D. (2018). Acute kidney injury and risk of incident heart failure among US veterans. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 71(2), 236–245. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.ajkd.2017.08.027
Boucher, N. A., Steinhauser, K. E., & Johnson, K. S. (2018). Older, seriously ill veterans’ views on the role of religion and spirituality in health-care delivery. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 35(7), 921–928. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049909118767113
Erqou, S., Jiang, L., Choudhary, G., Lally, M., Bloomfield, G. S., Zullo, A. R., Shireman, T. I., Freiberg, M., Justice, A. C., Rudolph, J., Lin, N., & Wu, W.-C. (2020). Heart failure outcomes and associated factors among veterans with human immunodeficiency virus infection. JACC: Heart Failure, 8(6), 501–511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2019.12.007
Foley, N. M., Hardin, M., Park, B., Rahaman, Z., Huang, S., Kelly, K., Ooi, H., Danter, M. R., Wigger, M. A., Shah, A. S., & Balsara, K. (2020). Veteran Affairs partnership improves access to high volume, quality heart transplant programs. It ain’t broke! The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 39(4), S362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2020.01.440
Foster, M., Albanese, C., Chen, Q., Sethares, K. A., Evans, S., Lehmann, L. S., Spencer, J., & Joseph, J. (2020). Heart failure dashboard design and validation to improve care of veterans. Applied Clinical Informatics, 11(1), 153–159. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701257
Fudim, M., Carlisle, M. A., Devaraj, S., Ajam, T., Ambrosy, A. P., Pokorney, S. D., Al‐Khatib, S. M., & Kamalesh, M. (2020). One-year mortality after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement within the Veterans Affairs health system. European Journal of Heart Failure, 22(5), 859–867. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1755
Garvin, J. H., Kim, Y., Gobbel, G. T., Matheny, M. E., Redd, A., Bray, B. E., … Meystre, S. M. (2018). Automating quality measures for heart failure using natural language processing: A descriptive study in the Department of Veterans Affairs. JMIR Medical Informatics, 6(1), e5. https://doi.org/10.2196/medinform.9150
Groeneveld, P. W., Medvedeva, E. L., Walker, L., Segal, A. G., Richardson, D. M., & Epstein, A. J. (2018). Outcomes of care for ischemic heart disease and chronic heart failure in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA Cardiology, 3(7), 563–571. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2018.1115
Guzman-Clark, J., Farmer, M. M., Wakefield, B. J., Viernes, B., Yefimova, M., Lee, M. L., & Hahn, T. J. (2020). Why patients stop using their home telehealth technologies over time: Predictors of discontinuation in veterans with heart failure. Nursing Outlook. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.11.004
Guzman-Clark, J., Wakefield, B. J., Farmer, M. M., Yefimova, M., Viernes, B., Lee, M. L., & Hahn, T. J. (2020). Adherence to the use of home telehealth technologies and emergency room visits in veterans with heart failure. Telemedicine and E-Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0312
Guzman-Clark, J., Yefimova, M., Farmer, M. M., Wakefield, B. J., Viernes, B., Lee, M. L., & Hahn, T. J. (2020). Home telehealth technologies for heart failure: An examination of adherence among veterans. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 46(7), 26–34. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20200605-05
Han, J., Chung, F., Nguyen, Q. L., Mody, F. V., & Jackevicius, C. A. (2019). Evaluation of patients with heart failure to determine eligibility for treatment with sacubitril/valsartan: Insights from a Veterans Administration Healthcare system. Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 39(11), 1053–1059. https://doi.org/10.1002/phar.2328
Hunt, K., Gebregziahber, M., Everett, C., Heidenreich, P., & Neal Axon, R. (2018). The interaction between rural/urban status and dual use status among veterans with heart failure. Rural and Remote Health, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH4495
Kohsaka, S., Sandhu, A. T., Parizo, J. T., Shoji, S., Kumamamru, H., & Heidenreich, P. A. (2020). Association of diagnostic coding‐based frailty and outcomes in patients with heart failure: A report from the Veterans Affairs health system. Journal of the American Heart Association, 9(24), e016502. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.016502
Matsushita, K., Sang, Y., Yang, C., Ballew, S. H., Grams, M. E., Coresh, J., & Molnar, M. Z. (2019). Dyskalemia, its patterns, and prognosis among patients with incident heart failure: A nationwide study of US veterans. PLOS ONE, 14(8), e0219899. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219899
Parizo, J. T., Kohsaka, S., Sandhu, A. T., Patel, J., & Heidenreich, P. A. (2020). Trends in readmission and mortality rates following heart failure hospitalization in the Veterans Affairs health care system from 2007 to 2017. JAMA Cardiology, 5(9), 1042–1047. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.2028
Parmeshwar, N., Fero, K. E., Manecke, G., & Coletta, J. M. (2019). Off-pump versus on-pump: Long-term outcomes after coronary artery bypass in a veteran population. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 33(5), 1187–1194. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2018.11.003
Pope, C. A., Davis, B. H., Wine, L., Nemeth, L. S., & Axon, R. N. (2018). A triangulated qualitative study of veteran decision-making to seek care during heart failure exacerbation: Implications of dual health system use. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 55, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958017751506
Presley, C. A., Min, J. Y., Chipman, J., Greevy, R. A., Grijalva, C. G., Griffin, M. R., & Roumie, C. L. (2019). Validation of an algorithm to identify heart failure hospitalisations in patients with diabetes within the Veterans Health Administration. BMJ Open, 8(3), e020455. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020455
Reese, R. L., Clement, S. A., Syeda, S., Hawley, C. E., Gosian, J. S., Cai, S., Jensen, L. L., Kind, A. J. H., & Driver, J. A. (2019). Coordinated-transitional care for veterans with heart failure and chronic lung disease. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 67(7), 1502–1507. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15978
Silva, G. C., Jiang, L., Gutman, R., Wu, W.-C., Mor, V., Fine, M. J., Kressin, N. R., & Trivedi, A. N. (2020). Mortality trends for veterans hospitalized with heart failure and pneumonia using claims-based vs clinical risk-adjustment variables. JAMA Internal Medicine, 180(3), 347–355. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.5970
Slightam, C., Risbud, R., Guetterman, T. C., Nevedal, A. L., Nelson, K. M., Piette, J. D., & Trivedi, R. B. (2020). Patient, caregiving partner, and clinician recommendations for improving heart failure care in the Veterans Health Administration. Chronic Illness, 1742395320966366. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395320966366
Lung Disease
Berchuck, J. E., Meyer, C. S., Zhang, N., Berchuck, C. M., Trivedi, N. N., Cohen, B., & Wang, S. (2020). Association of mental health treatment with outcomes for US veterans diagnosed with non–small cell lung cancer. JAMA Oncology, 6(7), 1055–1062. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.1466
Brown, T. J., Keshvani, N., Gupta, A., Yang, H., Agrawal, D., Le, T. C., Gerber, D. E., & Alvarez, C. A. (2020). Rates of appropriate laxative prophylaxis for opioid-induced constipation in veterans with lung cancer: A retrospective cohort study. Supportive Care in Cancer, 28(11), 5315–5321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05364-6
England, B. R., Sayles, H., Michaud, K., Thiele, G. M., Poole, J. A., Caplan, L., … Mikuls, T. R. (2018). Chronic lung disease in U.S. Veterans with rheumatoid arthritis and the impact on survival. Clinical Rheumatology, 37(11), 2907–2915. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-018-4314-9
Garcia, J. M., Kramer, J. R., Richardson, P. A., Ahmed, S., Royse, K. E., White, D. L., Raychaudhury, S., Chang, E., Hartman, C. M., Silverberg, M. J., & Chiao, E. Y. (2020). Effect of body weight and other metabolic factors on risk of non-small cell lung cancer among veterans with HIV and a history of smoking. Cancers, 12(12), 3809. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12123809
Lewis, J. A., Samuels, L. R., Denton, J., Edwards, G. C., Matheny, M. E., Maiga, A., Slatore, C. G., Grogan, E., Kim, J., Sherrier, R. H., Dittus, R. S., Massion, P. P., Keohane, L., Nikpay, S., & Roumie, C. L. (2020). National lung cancer screening utilization trends in the Veterans Health Administration. JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/jncics/pkaa053
Moghanaki, D., & Hagan, M. (2020). Strategic initiatives for veterans with lung cancer. Federal Practitioner, 37(S4), S76–S80. https://doi.org/10.12788/fp.0019
Reese, R. L., Clement, S. A., Syeda, S., Hawley, C. E., Gosian, J. S., Cai, S., Jensen, L. L., Kind, A. J. H., & Driver, J. A. (2019). Coordinated-transitional care for veterans with heart failure and chronic lung disease. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 67(7), 1502–1507. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15978
Welp, A. M., Abbott, S. E., Samson, P., Cameron, R. B., Cornwell, L. D., Harpole, D., & Moghanaki, D. (2020). The quality of peer-reviewed publications on surgery for early stage lung cancer within the Veterans Health Administration. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 32(4), 1066–1073. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.semtcvs.2020.04.004
Myocardial Infarction
Hess, P. L., Gunzburger, E. C., Kini, V., Liu, C.-F., Jones, Matlock, D., … Ho, P. M. (2018). National trends of hospital performance in acute myocardial infarction care. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 11(4), e004282. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.117.004282
Hunt, K. J., Jaffa, M. A., Garrett, S. M., Luttrell, D. K., Lipson, K. E., Lopes-Virella, M. F., … Jaffa, A. A. (2018). Plasma connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) levels predict myocardial infarction in the Veterans Affairs diabetes trial (VADT) cohort. Diabetes Care, 41(4), 840–846. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc17-2083
Peripheral Artery Disease
Hernandez, N. V., Ramirez, J. L., Khetani, S. A., Spaulding, K. A., Gasper, W. J., Hiramoto, J., … Zahner, G. J. (2018). Depression severity is associated with increased inflammation in veterans with peripheral artery disease. Vascular Medicine, 23(5), 445–453. https://doi.org/10.1177/1358863X18787640
McBride, C. L., Akeroyd, J. M., Ramsey, D. J., Nambi, V., Nasir, K., Michos, E. D., … Virani, S. S. (2018). Statin prescription rates and their facility-level variation in patients with peripheral artery disease and ischemic cerebrovascular disease: Insights from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Vascular Medicine, 23(3), 232–240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1358863X18758914
Willey, J., Mentias, A., Vaughan-Sarrazin, M., McCoy, K., Rosenthal, G., & Girotra, S. (2018). Epidemiology of lower extremity peripheral artery disease in veterans. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 68(2), 527-535.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2017.11.083
Pneumonia
Bostwick, A. D., Jones, B. E., Paine, R., Goetz, M. B., Samore, M., & Jones, M. (2019). Potential impact of hospital-acquired pneumonia guidelines on empiric antibiotics. An evaluation of 113 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 16(11), 1392–1398. https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201902-162OC
DeWaters, A. L., Chansard, M., Anzueto, A., Pugh, M. J., & Mortensen, E. M. (2018). The association between major depressive disorder and outcomes in older veterans hospitalized with pneumonia. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 355(1), 21–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjms.2017.08.015
Munro, S., Haile-Mariam, A., Greenwell, C., Demirci, S., Farooqi, O., & Vasudeva, S. (2018). Implementation and dissemination of a department of Veterans Affairs oral care initiative to prevent hospital-acquired pneumonia among nonventilated patients. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 42(4), 363–372. https://doi.org/10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000308
Pleasants, R., Bedoya, A., Kundich, R., Reihman, A., Welty-Wolf, K., & Tighe, R. (2018). Combined idiopathic interstitial pneumonia(IIP) and emphysema(E) in the Veterans Administration(VA) health system: Characteristics, tobacco use, and outcomes. European Respiratory Journal, 52(S62), PA2207. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2018.PA2207
Silva, G. C., Jiang, L., Gutman, R., Wu, W.-C., Mor, V., Fine, M. J., Kressin, N. R., & Trivedi, A. N. (2020). Mortality trends for veterans hospitalized with heart failure and pneumonia using claims-based vs clinical risk-adjustment variables. JAMA Internal Medicine, 180(3), 347–355. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.5970
Pulmonary Functioning
Falvo, M. J., Helmer, D. A., Klein, J. C., Osinubi, O. Y., Ndirangu, D., Patrick‐DeLuca, L. A., & Sotolongo, A. M. (2018). Isolated diffusing capacity reduction is a common clinical presentation in deployed Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with deployment-related environmental exposures. The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 12(2), 795–798. https://doi.org/10.1111/crj.12552
Hines, S. E., Barnes, A. H., Brown, C., Gucer, P., Oliver, M. S., Gaitens, J. M., … McDiarmid, M. (2018). Impulse oscillometry measurement of distal airways obstruction in depleted uranium-exposed Gulf War veterans. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 61(4), 308–316. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22816
Respiratory
Butzko, R. P., Sotolongo, A. M., Helmer, D. A., Klein-Adams, J. C., Osinubi, O. Y., Berman, A. R., Ortiz-Pacheco, R., & Falvo, M. J. (2019). Forced oscillation technique in veterans with preserved spirometry and chronic respiratory symptoms. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 260, 8–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resp.2018.11.012
Dursa, E. K., Tadesse, B. E., Carter, C. E., Culpepper, W. J., Schneiderman, A. I., & Rumm, P. D. (2020). Respiratory illness among Gulf War and Gulf War era veterans who use the Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 63(11), 980–987. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23172
Khazdair, M. R., & Boskabady, M. H. (2019). The effect of carvacrol on inflammatory mediators and respiratory symptoms in veterans exposed to sulfur mustard, a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Respiratory Medicine, 150, 21–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2019.01.020
Khazdair, M. R., Rezaeetalab, F., Rafatpanah, H., & Boskabady, M. H. (2020). The effect of zataria multiflora on inflammatory cytokine and respiratory symptoms in veterans exposed to sulfur mustard. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27(18), 22451–22460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08855-5
Mc Veigh, C., Reid, J., & Carvalho, P. (2019). Healthcare professionals’ views of palliative care for American war veterans with non-malignant respiratory disease living in a rural area: A qualitative study. BMC Palliative Care, 18(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-019-0408-7
Mohammadzadeh Shabestari, M., Alizadeh, L., Moshiri, M., Darchini-Maragheh, E., & Balali-Mood, M. (2019). Late cardiac complications of sulfur mustard poisoning in 38 Iranian veterans. Cardiovascular Toxicology, 19(3), 220–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12012-018-9481-z
Slatore, C. G., Falvo, M. J., Nugent, S., & Carlson, K. (2018). Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans: Mental health diagnoses are associated with respiratory disease diagnoses. Military Medicine, 183(5/6), e249–e257. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usx108
Stroke
Bravata, D. M., Myers, L. J., Arling, G., Miech, E. J., Damush, T., Sico, J. J., … Cheng, E. (2018). Quality of care for veterans with transient ischemic attack and minor stroke. JAMA Neurology, 75(4), 419–427. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2017.4648
Chao, T.-F., Lip, G. Y. H., Liu, C.-J., Lin, Y.-J., Chang, S.-L., Lo, L.-W., … Chen, S.-A. (2018). Relationship of aging and incident comorbidities to stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 71(2), 122–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.085
Kohok, D. D., Sico, J. J., Baye, F., Myers, L., Coffing, J., Kamalesh, M., & Bravata, D. M. (2018). Post-stroke hypertension control and receipt of health care services among veterans. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 20(2), 382–387. https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.13194
Lyerly, M. J., Albright, K. C., McCaskill, G. M., Williams, L. S., Howard, G., & Howard, V. J. (2018). Comparison of incident stroke in veterans and non-veterans in a national cohort. Stroke, 49(S1), ATMP56–ATMP56. https://doi.org/10.1161/str.49.suppl_1.TMP56