Substance use among patients with incident Crohn’s disease in the United States, 2010 to 2019: a Medicaid observational study

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Author Contributions

Conceptualization: Chen, Hutfless

Data Curation: Hutfless

Formal Analysis: Chen, Patel, Jasper, Hutfless

Funding Acquisition: Chen, Hutfless

Supervision: Chen, Hutfless

Visualization: Patel

Writing – Original Draft Preparation: Chen

Writing – Review & Editing: All

Conflicts of Interest: These authors disclose the following: Po-Hung Chen reports serving as a Medical Safety Officer for the NIH/NIDDK-sponsored Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network, a Steering Committee member for the Alcohol-associated Liver Disease Special Interest Group of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and a Practice Guidelines Committee member of AASLD. The remaining authors disclose no conflicts.

Funding: We gratefully acknowledge funding by a grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to Johns Hopkins University (PI: Hutfless), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers K23AA028297 (PI: Chen) and K24AA027483 (PI: Chander), and Gilead Sciences Research Scholars Program in Liver Disease—The Americas (PI: Chen). The content is solely the authors’ responsibility and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or other sponsors. The sponsor(s) had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Data Transparency Statement: CMS data are available with an approved data user agreement through ResDAC (resdac.org). SAS codes used to identify the cohort, medications, hospitalization, surgery, smoking, and other characteristics of the Crohn’s disease population are available in a public GitHub repository (https://github.com/susanmhutfless/playground).

Ethical Statement: The corresponding author, on behalf of all authors, jointly and severally, certifies that their institution has approved the protocol for any investigation involving humans or animals and that all experimentation was conducted in conformity with ethical and humane principles of research.

Reporting Guidelines: STROBE

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gastha.2023.03.019

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