Truveta Research explored whether the rates of first-time anxiety diagnoses or first-time anxiety-related prescriptions were higher during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic era. We found that – with the brief exception of early 2021 – the rate of...
Heart disease is a massive crisis in this country. Ranking as the leading cause of death in the US for more than a century, heart disease takes a life approximately every 33 seconds. That’s about the same time it takes an average person to blink eight times. Although...
Truveta Research explored the rates of pediatric RSV immunizations and pediatric RSV-associated hospitalizations for children under the age of two. Of the 1,872,292 children under age two who were eligible to receive an RSV immunization, 3.7% of the eligible...
Overall, the rate of hospitalizations associated with respiratory viruses continues to increase (92.8% increase from November 2023 to the end of December 2023). The largest increases in hospitalizations over the past month were associated with influenza (251.7%...
Overall prescribing rates (GLP-1 RA prescriptions per total prescriptions) have remained stable in the last 3 months, with rates in December 2023 about the same as rates in November 2023 and October 2023. For the anti-diabetic medications (ADMs), the number of...
Crohn’s disease, a complex chronic inflammatory disorder of the GI tract, affects approximately 780,000 Americans with an estimated 33,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Crohn’s, along with ulcerative colitis, are the two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease...
