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A benefit of vaccination not previously documented: "For the first time in a general-population dataset [in > 15 million people], we demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccination reduces, but does not entirely ameliorate, excess diabetes incidence after COVID-19" medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

It was a pleasure supervising Femi for his internship! In only 8 weeks he got to grips with OpenSAFELY, addressed a policy-relevant question on COVID-19 vaccine uptake, developed his R skills and confidently presented his results. I'm sure he has a bright future ahead✨

I had the privilege of speaking at #ADRUKConf23. My talk was on optimising large-scale analytics in NHS SDE. Greatful for the engaging discussions and the connection with brilliant fellow researchers

Pleased to share our latest @opensafely study on the impact of COVID-19 on mental illness. COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Prof Praveetha Patalay Jonathan Sterne

New preprint with the alternative title "What I wish I had known about delay distribution estimation in January 2020" samabbott.co.uk/posts/2024-01-…

Major depressive disorder impacts peripheral artery disease risk through intermediary risk factors ft. Gabrielle Shakt, Noah tsao, Venexia Walker, Scott Damrauer (PennSurgery), Michael Levin (Penn Cardiology), @RachelKember (Penn Psychiatry) & Benjamin Voight (PennSysPharmATT) tinyurl.com/3x4w4yke

Excited to be off to CAUSALab Boston in a couple of weeks to discuss open science and causal inference in UK electronic health records.

Wrapping up our morning sessions is Venexia Walker, Epidemiologist at University of Bristol & UPenn sharing with us how #causalinference is used in #UK electronic health records and opportunities available for open science. #KolokotronesSymposium CAUSALab

The 17th Kolokotrones Symposium, "UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence,” was a success! Thanks to our speakers for providing valuable insight into the British data model. Presentations now live on YouTube: youtu.be/OkK57xqPOoI?si…

Great to have the Uganda Hub for this year's 6th Mendelian Randomisation Conference holding in Bristol Excited that our team is selected for 3 oral talks - 2 in-person and 1 online from the hub. It is going to be a great conference!

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Fab to work with Kurt Taylor Venexia Walker Jonathan Sterne Nish Chaturvedi LHA @ UCL Rachel Denholm & others OpenSAFELY showing post-covid T2DM less likely after vaccination sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

On the reduction of heart attacks, strokes and other clotting events with Covid vaccination among ~46 million people nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications Venexia Walker

Incidence of mental illnesses was elevated for up to a year following severe COVID-19 in unvaccinated people. These findings suggest that vaccination may mitigate the adverse effects of COVID-19 on mental health. ja.ma/3WMP6jq

Pleased to share our paper on COVID-19 and mental illnesses in vaccinated and unvaccinated people using OpenSAFELY 😀

GW4 PhD opportunity 'Causal inference tools to study vaccines using real-world data: how can we make better use of negative control outcomes?' with Helen McDonald, Anita McGrogan and me. More details here: gw4biomed.ac.uk/causal-inferen…

✨NEW ✨ BMJ Research Methods & Reporting article on reading and conducting instrumental variable studies. Thanks to Eleanor Sanderson, Michael Levin, Scott Damrauer, Tim Feeney, and @nm_davies. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-20…

Our multi-population GWAS paper on Afib is online now Nature Communications We identified more genetic loci, population-specific genetic correlations, improved polygenic risk score, and enhanced risk prediction by integrating a PRS and protein score. nature.com/articles/s4146…