Comparative Genomics of Streptococcus oralis Identifies Large Scale Homologous Recombination and a Genetic Variant Associated with Infection by Luke R. Joyce, Madison A. Youngblom, Harshini Cormaty, Evelyn Gartstein, Katie E. Barber, Ronda L. Akins, Caitlin S. Pepperell, Kelli L. Palmer

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Which pharmacists are performing antimicrobial stewardship: A national survey and a call for collaborative efforts by Brandon Dionne, Jamie L. Wagner, Daniel B. Chastain, Meagen Rosenthal, Monica V. Mahoney, Christopher M. Bland

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SOX9 Governs Gastric Mucous Neck Cell Identity and Is Required for Injury-Induced MetaplasiaSummary by Spencer G. Willet, Nattapon Thanintorn, Helen McNeill, Sung-Ho Huh, David M. Ornitz, Won Jae Huh, Stella G. Hoft, Richard J. DiPaolo, Jason C. Mills

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Application of a Lifestyle-Based Score to Predict Cardiovascular Risk in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study by Mercedes Sotos-Prieto, Songzhu Zhao, David Kline, Guy Brock, Holly Gooding, Josiemer Mattei, Fernando Rodriguez-Artalejo, Yuan-I Min, Eric B. Rimm, Katherine L. Tucker, Joshua J. Joseph

“…The Jackson Heart Study is a prospective cohort including 5306 African American participants in Jackson, Mississippi (2000–2004), with a mean follow up of 12 years. …”
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Dynamic Change of Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Long‐Term Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death: The ARIC Study by Yuan‐Sheng Zhai, Wen‐Tao Bi, Zhu‐Yu Li, Li‐ping Qu, Yu‐He Jia, Yun‐Jiu Cheng

“…ARIC enrolled 15 792 individuals 45 to 64 years of age from 4 US communities (Forsyth County, North Carolina; Jackson, Mississippi; suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Washington County, Maryland). …”
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Persistence in a pharmacist-led, same-day PrEP program in Mississippi: a mixed-methods study by Christine M. Khosropour, Taylor Riley, Elise Healy, Kandis V. Backus, Courtney E. Gomillia, Leandro Mena, Khadijra R. Lockwood, Felicia M. Gordon, Arianna R. Means, Lori M. Ward

“…Methods This is a mixed-method evaluation of a PrEP program in Jackson, Mississippi. Between November 2018-December 2019, clients at high risk for HIV attending a non-clinical testing site were referred to a pharmacist for same-day PrEP initiation. …”
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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in pre-mass vaccination era among children residing in a rural area of Bangladesh by Masuda Mohsena, Amal K Mitra, MA Sayeed, Akhter Banu, J Ashraful Haq

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Skin Tone and Gender of High-Fidelity Simulation Manikins in Emergency Medicine Residency Training and their Use in Cultural Humility Training by Marie Anderson Wofford, Cortlyn Brown, Bernard Walston, Heidi Whiteside, Joseph Rigdon, Philip Turk

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Elevated circulating GPHB5 levels in women with insulin resistance and polycystic ovary syndrome: A cross-sectional study and multiple intervention studies by Yanping Wang, Yanping Wang, Ting Xiang, Xuyun Xia, Hongmin Zhang, Shan Geng, Gangyi Yang, Sheng Qiu, Yirui He, Rui Liu, Ling Li, Hua Liu, Ke Li, Lili Zhang, Zerong Liang, Jianguo He

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Efficacy of Neurohormonal Therapies in Preventing Cardiotoxicity in Patients With Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy by Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH, Sameer A. Hirji, MD, MPH, Arman Qamar, MD, Navkaranbir Bajaj, MD, MPH, Ankur Gupta, MD, PhD, Vlad G. Zaha, MD, Alvin Chandra, MD, Mark Haykowsky, PhD, Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE, Javid Moslehi, MD, Anju Nohria, MD, Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, Ambarish Pandey, MD, MSCS

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Dysnatremias, Mortality, and Kidney Failure in CKD: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study by Mohamed Hassanein, Susana Arrigain, Jesse D. Schold, Georges N. Nakhoul, Sankar D. Navaneethan, Ali Mehdi, Arjun Sekar, Jad Tabbara, Jonathan J. Taliercio

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Study of Treatment and Reproductive Outcomes Among Reproductive-Age Women With HIV Infection in the Southern United States: Protocol for a Longitudinal Cohort Study by Anandi N Sheth, Adaora A Adimora, Elizabeth Topper Golub, Seble G Kassaye, Aadia Rana, Daniel Westreich, Jennifer Webster Cyriaque, Carrigan Parish, Deborah Konkle-Parker, Deborah L Jones, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Igho Ofotokun, Ruth M Kanthula, Jessica Donohue, Patricia Raccamarich, Tina Tisdale, Catalina Ramirez, Lari Warren-Jeanpiere, Phyllis C Tien, Maria L Alcaide

“…MethodsThe STAR is a prospective, observational cohort study that will be conducted at 6 sites in the United States—Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; and Washington, District of Columbia. …”
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Production of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) by fast-growing phytoplankton by D. C. O. Thornton, S. D. Brooks, E. K. Wilbourn, J. Mirrielees, A. N. Alsante, G. Gold-Bouchot, A. Whitesell, A. Whitesell, K. McFadden, K. McFadden

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Diagnostic Performance Assessment of Saliva RT-PCR and Nasopharyngeal Antigen for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Peru by Roger I. Calderón, Tulip A. Jhaveri, Marco A. Tovar, J. Santiago Palomino, Nadia N. Barreda, Oswaldo M. Sanabria, Jesús Peinado, Claudio Ramirez, L. Fernando Llanos Zavalaga, Gissela Valderrama, Molly F. Franke, Carole D. Mitnick, Leonid Lecca, Gustavo E. Velásquez

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The role of aldosterone and ideal cardiovascular health in incident cardiovascular disease: The Jackson heart study by Bjorn Kluwe, Neal Pohlman, Veena Kesireddy, Songzhu Zhao, Yubo Tan, David Kline, Guy Brock, James B. Odei, Valery S. Effoe, Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugui, Rita R. Kalyani, Mario Sims, Herman A. Taylor, Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, Ehimare Akhabue, Joshua J. Joseph

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Clinical performance and quality measures for heart failure management in China: the China‐Heart Failure registry study by Yuhui Zhang, Chuanyu Gao, Stephen J. Greene, Barry H. Greenberg, Javed Butler, Jing Yu, Zhaofen Zheng, Genshan Ma, Lian Wang, Ping Yang, Xiaoping Ji, Dingli Xu, Jiang Wang, Yao Zhang, Ying Liu, Yan Zhao, Hong Qi, Mei Zhai, Jiayu Feng, Yan Huang, Qiong Zhou, Jian Zhang

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Ancestral diversity in lipoprotein(a) studies helps address evidence gaps by Adolfo Correa, Annie Green Howard, Kari E North, Jerome I Rotter, Stephen S Rich, Ulrike Peters, Zhe Wang, Michael Y Tsai, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Christie Ballantyne, Shia T Kent, Ruth J F Loos, Christy L Avery, Xiuqing Guo, Jie Yao, Yao Hu, Mariaelisa Graff, Paul S de Vries, Keri L Monda, Moa P Lee, Sofia F Dimos, Laura M Raffield, Anna F Ballou, Carolina G Downie, Christopher H Arehart, Zhaohui Du, Christopher R Gignoux, Jeffrey Haessler, Helina Kassahun, J Antonio G Lopez, Michael H Preuss, Shannon L Rhodes, Rina Yarosh, Charles L Kooperberg

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Plant-based diets and incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in African Americans: A cohort study by Leah J. Weston, Hyunju Kim, Sameera A. Talegawkar, Katherine L. Tucker, Adolfo Correa, Casey M. Rebholz

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4> We conducted an analysis of prospectively collected data from a community-based cohort of African American adults (n = 3,635) in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) aged 21–95 years, living in the Jackson, Mississippi, metropolitan area, US, who were followed from 2000 to 2018. …”
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A population‐based meta‐analysis of circulating GFAP for cognition and dementia risk by Mitzi M. Gonzales, Crystal Wiedner, Chen‐Pin Wang, Qianqian Liu, Joshua C. Bis, Zhiguang Li, Jayandra J. Himali, Saptaparni Ghosh, Emy A. Thomas, Danielle M. Parent, Tiffany F. Kautz, Matthew P. Pase, Hugo J. Aparicio, Luc Djoussé, Kenneth J. Mukamal, Bruce M. Psaty, William T. Longstreth Jr, Thomas H. Mosley Jr, Vilmundur Gudnason, Djass Mbangdadji, Oscar L. Lopez, Kristine Yaffe, Stephen Sidney, R. Nick Bryan, Ilya M. Nasrallah, Charles S. DeCarli, Alexa S. Beiser, Lenore J. Launer, Myriam Fornage, Russell P. Tracy, Sudha Seshadri, Claudia L. Satizabal

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Aspirin for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, and Kidney Failure in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) StudyPlain-Language Summary by Jonathan J. Taliercio, Georges Nakhoul, Ali Mehdi, Wei Yang, Daohang Sha, Jesse D. Schold, Scott Kasner, Matthew Weir, Mohamed Hassanein, Sankar D. Navaneethan, Geetha Krishnan, Radhika Kanthety, Alan S. Go, Rajat Deo, Claudia M. Lora, Bernard G. Jaar, Teresa K. Chen, Jing Chen, Jiang He, Mahboob Rahman, Lawrence J. Appel, MD, MPH, Debbie L. Cohen, MD, Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE, James P. Lash, MD, Robert G. Nelson, MD, PhD, MS, Panduranga S. Rao, MD, Vallabh O. Shah, PhD, MS, Mark L. Unruh, MD, MS

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