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Emily O'Brien

Emily O'Brien

Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Population Health Sciences
emily.obrien@duke.edu
215 Morris Street, Suite 210, Durham, NC 27701

Scholarly Works - Conferences

Novel Recruitment, Data Collection, and Safety Reporting Methods in the Era of COVID-19: Design of a Post-Emergency Use Authorization COVID-19 Vaccination Safety-Surveillance Study

Conference Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety · July 1, 2026 Purpose: Within one week of the Food and Drug Administration granting the COVID-19 vaccine Emergency Use Authorization, the HERO-Together study launched. We describe how the study utilized novel methods for streamlined enrollment and longitudinal data coll ... Full text Cite

Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers: Findings From a National Registry

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE · May 1, 2024 Link to item Cite

Contemporary patterns of lipoprotein(a) testing and associated clinical care and outcomes.

Conference Am J Prev Cardiol · June 2023 OBJECTIVE: Elevated lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, yet little is known about Lp(a) testing patterns in real-world practice. The objective of this analysis was to determine how Lp(a) testing is used in clin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hydroxychloroquine for pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 in health care workers: a randomized, multicenter, placebo-controlled trial Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes of Hydroxychloroquine (HERO-HCQ).

Conference Int J Infect Dis · April 2023 OBJECTIVES: To determine whether hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is safe and effective at preventing COVID-19 infections among health care workers (HCWs). METHODS: In a 1: 1 randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group, superiority trial at 34 US ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract 30: Association Between Hospital-ascertained Atrial Fibrillation And Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Study Of 12 Million Patients

Conference Stroke · February 2023 Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major risk factor for cerebral ischemic stroke. However, it is not known whether AF predicts the development of central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO), a f ... Full text Cite

Recent Trends in Neurodegenerative Disease Burden in North and South Carolina

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 2021 Link to item Cite

Abstract P187: The Associations of White Coat and Masked Hypertension With Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in the Jackson Heart Study

Conference Circulation · March 5, 2019 Introduction: The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) blood pressure (BP) guideline uses lower clinic and out-of-clinic BP thresholds to define hypertension compar ... Full text Cite

Abstract P404: Sex-specific Associations of Plasma Endothelin-1 With Incidence of Stroke in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study

Conference Circulation · March 5, 2019 Background: Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a vasoconstrictive peptide with cerebral action, also associated with the degree of atherosclerosis. Previous research found that estrogen has inhibitory effect on E ... Full text Cite

Survival in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF): Data from the IPF-PRO Registry

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE · January 1, 2018 Link to item Cite

Clinical Characteristics Of Patients With Advanced Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE · January 1, 2017 Link to item Cite

Disease Severity And Quality Of Life In Newly Diagnosed Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE · January 1, 2016 Link to item Cite