VUMC
Health Policy
Andrew Wiese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Wiese is a pharmacoepidemiologist whose research aims to leverage observational studies to provide real-world evidence of the safety and efficacy of commonly used medications and vaccines. His current work is focused on characterizing the safety of medication use for patients and infants during pregnancy and in the postpartum period, assessing the impact of pharmaceutical policies on medication use and medication-related outcomes, and implementing novel research methods to examine drug dose exposures using administrative data.

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O048 - THE RISK OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION INCREASES SUBSTANTIALLY DURING LABORATORY-CONFIRMED INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE: A SELF-CONTROLLED CASE SERIES ANALYSIS (ID 730)

Session Type
Parallel Session
Date
Tue, 21.06.2022
Session Time
14:50 - 16:20
Room
Grand Ballroom Centre
Lecture Time
15:35 - 15:45

Abstract

Background

Major cardiovascular events, including acute myocardial infarction (AMI), have been reported among patients with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Yet, whether IPD is causally associated with AMI remains unclear. We sought to determine if laboratory confirmed IPD was associated with the risk of AMI.

Methods

We conducted a self-controlled case series (SCCS) analysis among adult Tennessee residents with evidence of laboratory confirmed IPD as identified by the Tennessee Active Bacterial Core surveillance system (2003-2019). Patients entered the cohort 52 weeks prior to their IPD specimen collection date and were followed through the earliest of date of death, week 52 after IPD or end of study (12/2019). Risk periods included a pre-IPD (day -7 to day -1 before IPD date), an acute IPD (day 0 to 7 after IPD date), a post-acute IPD (day 8 to 28 after IPD date) and a control (all other follow-up time) risk period. We used conditional Poisson regression to perform within-person comparisons and to calculate age-adjusted incidence rate ratios for each risk period compared to control periods.

Results

Among 3,140 patients with laboratory confirmed IPD, 13.9% (n=438) had an AMI episode during follow-up. The incidence of AMI was significantly higher during both the pre-IPD (IRR: 8.3; 95% CI: 5.6-12.4) and the acute IPD (IRR: 47.7; 95% CI: 37.5-60.9) risk periods compared to control periods. No difference was observed for the post-acute IPD risk period.

Conclusions

The risk of AMI was substantially increased during laboratory confirmed IPD periods compared to control periods.

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