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Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Construct a Phenotype for Hypertension Surveillance in the United States.
American journal of hypertension - 15 Nov 2023
He Siran, Park Soyoun, Kuklina Elena, Therrien Nicole L, Lundeen Elizabeth A, Wall Hilary K, Lampley Katrice, Kompaniyets Lyudmyla, Pierce Samantha L, Sperling Laurence, Jackson Sandra L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Electronic health records (EHRs) may augment chronic disease surveillance. We aimed to develop an electronic phenotype (e-phenotype) for hypertension surveillance. METHODS: We included 11,031,368 eligible adults from the 2019 IQVIA Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records-US (AEMR-US) dataset. We identified hypertension using three...
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