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. 2021 May 3;4(5):e214920.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.4920.

Prevalence of Immunosuppressive Drug Use Among Commercially Insured US Adults, 2018-2019

Beth I Wallace  1   2 , Brooke Kenney  3 , Preeti N Malani  1 , Daniel J Clauw  4 , Brahmajee K Nallamothu  1 , Akbar K Waljee  1   2
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Prevalence of Immunosuppressive Drug Use Among Commercially Insured US Adults, 2018-2019

Beth I Wallace et al. JAMA Netw Open. .

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses direct pharmaceutical claims data from a commercial claims database to assess the use of 6 types of immunosuppressive drugs among commercially insured US adults in 2018 and 2019.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Clauw reported receiving grants from Aptinyx Inc and Lundbeck and personal fees from Tonix Pharmaceuticals, Innovative Med Concepts, and Samumed outside the submitted work. Dr Nallamothu reported being a principal investigator or coinvestigator on research grants from the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Affairs Health Service and Research and Development, and the American Heart Association. He also reported receiving compensation, as editor-in-chief of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association. He is listed as a coinventor on US utility patent No. US 9,962,124, as well as a provisional patent application (No. 54423) that used software technology with signal processing and machine learning to automate the reading of coronary angiograms, held by the University of Michigan and licensed to AngioInsight, Inc, in which Dr Nallamothu holds ownership shares and receives consultancy fees. The University of Michigan also has filed patents on his behalf related to the use of computer vision for imaging applications in gastroenterology, with technology elements licensed to Applied Morphomics, Inc, in which he has no relationship or stake. No other disclosures were reported.

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