Scholars@Duke
Jacqueline Boykin Henson

Jacqueline Boykin Henson

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Gastroenterology

Selected Publications

Decreased Completion of Ordered Laboratories and Imaging in Telehealth Compared With In-person Hepatology Encounters.

Journal Article J Clin Gastroenterol · July 16, 2024 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate order completion after telehealth compared with in-person encounters. BACKGROUND: Completion of ordered testing, including laboratories and imaging, is an important aspect of successful outpatient care of patients with liver disease. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Post-Transplant Management and Complications of Autoimmune Hepatitis, Primary Biliary Cholangitis, and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis including Disease Recurrence.

Journal Article Clin Liver Dis · February 2024 Autoimmune liver diseases have unique post-transplant considerations. These recipients are at increased risk of rejection, and recurrent disease may also develop, which can progress to graft loss and increase mortality. Monitoring for and managing these co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hypophosphatemia as a Predictor of Clinical Outcomes in Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study.

Journal Article Pancreas · January 1, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Phosphate is crucial for cellular repair after injury and may be important in recovery following acute pancreatitis (AP). This study aimed to evaluate the association between hypophosphatemia and severity of AP. METHODS: Patients admitted with A ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluation of the Potential Utility of an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Management.

Journal Article Am J Gastroenterol · December 1, 2023 INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence chatbots could serve as an information resource for patients and a tool for clinicians. Their ability to respond appropriately to questions regarding gastroesophageal reflux disease is unknown. METHODS: Twenty-three pr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Characterization of social determinants of health of a liver transplant referral population.

Journal Article Liver Transpl · November 1, 2023 Disparities exist in referral and access to the liver transplant (LT) waitlist, and social determinants of health (SDOH) are increasingly recognized as important factors driving health inequities, including in LT. The SDOH of potential transplant candidate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Performance of the Pooled Cohort Equations in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

Journal Article Liver Int · March 2023 BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with a high risk of cardiovascular disease. Whether risk scores developed in the general population accurately assess cardiovascular risk in the NAFLD population is unknown. This ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rates of employment after liver transplant: A nationwide cohort study.

Journal Article Hepatol Commun · March 1, 2023 BACKGROUND: Employment outcomes after liver transplant (LT) over the past decade have not been described. METHODS: LT recipients ages 18-65 from 2010-2018 were identified in Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data. Employment within two years po ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluation of an Abnormal Liver Panel After Liver Transplantation.

Journal Article Clin Liver Dis · February 2023 Abnormal liver tests are common after liver transplantation. The differential diagnosis depends on the clinical context, particularly the time course, pattern and degree of elevation, and donor and recipient factors. The perioperative period has distinct c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Access to technology to support telehealth in areas without specialty care for liver disease.

Journal Article Hepatology · January 1, 2023 BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Telehealth may be a successful strategy to increase access to specialty care for liver disease, but whether the areas with low access to care and a high burden of liver-related mortality have the necessary technology access to support ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trends and Disparities in Hepatology Televisits at a Large Tertiary Care Center

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY · 2023 Cite

The Hepatitis C Cascade of Care in Pregnancy: Identifying Barriers to Treatment

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY · 2023 Cite

Patient-Predicted Outcomes Are Associated with Quality of Life in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.

Journal Article Dig Dis Sci · December 2022 BACKGROUND: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, progressive liver disease, and many patients ultimately require liver transplantation (LT). PSC also confers an increased risk of malignancies, including cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) and colorectal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social Determinants of Health Data Capture Within National and Health System Data Sources

Conference Journal of the American College of Surgeons · November 2022 Full text Cite

Social determinants of health data in solid organ transplantation: National data sources and future directions.

Journal Article Am J Transplant · October 2022 Health equity research in transplantation has largely relied on national data sources, yet the availability of social determinants of health (SDOH) data varies widely among these sources. We sought to characterize the extent to which national data sources ... Full text Link to item Cite

Recent updates in preemptive transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for acute variceal bleeding.

Journal Article Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken) · September 2022 Content available: Author Interview and Audio Recording. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Individuals With Nonobese Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Journal Article Hepatol Commun · February 2022 Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is independently associated with obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD is the primary cause of mortality in the predominantly obese population of adults with NAFLD. NAFLD is increasingly seen in individuals ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trends in statin utilisation in US adults with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Journal Article Aliment Pharmacol Ther · December 2021 BACKGROUND: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has high morbidity and mortality related to cardiovascular disease (CVD), but statins have been historically underutilised in these patients due to concern for hepatotoxicity. AIMS: To characterise tren ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sexual Function and Health in Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY · 2021 Cite

Brief Report: Relationship Between Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Cardiovascular Disease in Persons With HIV.

Journal Article J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr · August 1, 2020 BACKGROUND: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and HIV are independently associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the factors associated with NAFLD in persons living with HIV (PWH) and whether CVD is more frequent in PWH with NAFLD are ... Full text Link to item Cite

Transplant Outcomes in Older Patients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Compared to Alcohol-related Liver Disease and Hepatitis C.

Journal Article Transplantation · June 2020 BACKGROUND: Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are waitlisted at older ages than individuals with other liver diseases, but the effect of age on liver transplantation (LT) outcomes in this population and whether it differs from other etiolog ... Full text Link to item Cite

Advanced fibrosis is associated with incident cardiovascular disease in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Journal Article Aliment Pharmacol Ther · April 2020 BACKGROUND: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. It is not well understood, however, which individuals with NAFLD are at highest risk for cardiovascular disease. AIMS: To determine the fa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Daily Aspirin Use Associated With Reduced Risk For Fibrosis Progression In Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Journal Article Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol · December 2019 BACKGROUND & AIMS: There are few data from prospective studies on the effects of aspirin on fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). METHODS: We performed a prospective cohort study of 361 adults with biopsy-confirmed NAFLD, from ... Full text Link to item Cite

The association of hepatitis C infection with the onset of CKD and progression into ESRD.

Journal Article Semin Dial · March 2019 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is not only an important cause of chronic liver disease, but extrahepatic manifestations are common and include chronic kidney disease (CKD). HCV is classically associated with cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis in the co ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Twist of Fate: A Case of Cardiac Arrest

Conference CIRCULATION · 2019 Cite

The impact of human leukocyte antigen donor and recipient serotyping and matching on liver transplant graft failure in primary sclerosing cholangitis, autoimmune hepatitis, and primary biliary cholangitis.

Journal Article Clin Transplant · October 2018 Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) serotyping is not considered to have significant impact on liver graft survival and does not factor into U.S. organ allocation. Immune-related liver diseases such as primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), autoimmune hepatitis ( ... Full text Link to item Cite

Differences in Phenotypes and Liver Transplantation Outcomes by Age Group in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.

Journal Article Dig Dis Sci · November 2017 BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence for a heterogeneity of phenotypes in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), but differences across the age spectrum in adults with PSC have not been well characterized. AIMS: To characterize phenotypic variations and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in United States Adults With Liver Disease.

Journal Article J Clin Gastroenterol · July 2017 GOALS: To describe the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in US adults with liver disease. BACKGROUND: The prevalence and patterns of CAM use among US adults with liver disease have not been well characterized. The 2012 National Health Interv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Outcomes of liver retransplantation in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.

Journal Article Liver Transpl · June 2017 Liver retransplantation in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) has not been well studied. The aims of this study were to characterize patients with PSC listed for and undergoing retransplantation and to describe the outcomes in these patient ... Full text Link to item Cite