From the ∗Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
†Biostatistics Core at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
‡Durham Veterans Affairs Health System, Durham, NC
§Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Departments of ∥Surgery
¶Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
#Department of Urology, UC San Diego Medical Center, La Jolla, CA.
Correspondence: Jennifer T. Anger, MD, MPH. E-mail: [email protected].
The authors have declared they have no conflicts of interest.
This work was funded by a grant (5U01DP006079) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This publication was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $5.5 million with 100% funded by CDC/HHS.
This work has been presented as an oral presentation at Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction; February 22–26, 2022; San Diego, CA; as well as a scientific salon session at Pelvic Floor Disorders (PFD) Week; October 12–15, 2021; Phoenix, AZ.
S.J.F., J.K., J.T.A., A.M.D.H., and K.E.B. did the study conception and design. A.M.D.H. and C.B. data collection. C.B. did the analysis and interpretation of results. C.A.N., L.N.T., J.T.A. did the draft manuscript preparation. All authors have reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.
The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, the CDC/HHS, or the US Government.
This was an observational study and so no clinical trial registration was obtained.
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Veterans Health Administration database. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are available from the authors with the permission of the Veterans Health Administration.
Approval was obtained from the Durham VA Institutional Review Board Durham (VAMC IRB#1936).
The institutional review board waived the need to obtain consent for this study as the patients were retrospectively obtained and made anonymous.
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