Siran M. Koroukian

Dec 2, 2024 | physiciansweekly.com | Siran M. Koroukian |Teresa Leisen Sellinger |Martha Sajatovic |Gena R. Ghearing

Siran Koroukian, PhD, and colleagues discuss their findings that medical and psychiatric comorbidities in new-onset or incident epilepsy are common in adults. “Most prior studies that have examined comprehensive sets of comorbid chronic conditions in older adults with epilepsy have focused on those with prevalent epilepsy, but fewer have examined more than a few comorbidities among those with new onset or incident epilepsy,” researchers wrote in Epilepsia.

Aug 30, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Siran M. Koroukian |Nicole Cook |Suparna M. Navale

Objective To compare morbidity burden captured from multimorbidity indices and aggregated measures of clinically meaningful categories captured in primary care community-based health center (CBHC) patients. Data Sources and Study Setting Electronic health records of patients seen in 2019 in OCHIN's national network of CBHCs serving patients in rural and underserved communities.

Jun 4, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Siran M. Koroukian |Hannah L. Fein |Long Vu |Wyatt Bensken

We identified preexisting chronic conditions with excess prevalence in older adults with incident epilepsy compared to those without. We observed excess prevalence of most preexisting chronic conditions in older adults with incident epilepsy, especially for stroke. Excess prevalence was greater for younger than for older age groups. Excess prevalence was also greater in Hispanic beneficaries with incident epilepsy than in their non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black counterparts.

May 21, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Nagaraju Sarabu |Weichuan Dong |Siran M. Koroukian

1 INTRODUCTION Racial and ethnic healthcare disparities are defined as racial or ethnic differences in the quality of healthcare that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention.1 The prevalence of prostate cancer and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), which is defined as being maintained on dialysis or having a kidney transplant, in men in the United States is as follows: over 3 million men with prostate cancer and 2769 men per...

Jan 5, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Wyatt Bensken |Siran M. Koroukian |Brenda McGrath |Philip M. Alberti

Introduction The US Families First Coronavirus Response Act of the COVID-19 pandemic required states to provide continuous Medicaid coverage to receive additional federal funding.1 In April 2023, the Consolidated Appropriations Act required states to resume standard redeterminations,2 with large initial decreases in Medicaid enrollment.3 We studied a large national network of community health centers to assess Medicaid disenrollment during the first 6 months after the end of continuous...