Oklahoma Area Tribal Epidemiology Center, Southern Plains Tribal Health Board, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Mr Dougherty); Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Hudson College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Drs Janitz, Williams, Martinez, and Campbell); Division of Research and Public Health, Chickasaw Nation Department of Health, Ada, Oklahoma (Mr Peercy); Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Idabel, Oklahoma (Mr Wharton); and Office of the Clinical Director, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (Ms Erb-Alvarez).
Correspondence: Tyler M. Dougherty, MPH, CPH, Oklahoma Area Tribal Epidemiology Center, Southern Plains Tribal Health Board, Oklahoma Area Tribal Epidemiology Center, 9705 N. Broadway Ext, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73114 ([email protected]).
The authors acknowledge Kelly M. Baker and Dr Derek Pate at the Oklahoma State Department of Health for their continued support of the ongoing Indian Health Service linkage process and for making these data available. The authors also acknowledge Tina Isham-Amos at the Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service office for her extensive work on the most recent IHS linkage. They also acknowledge Melissa Jim at the National Indian Health Service office for her willingness to support this linkage process and all of the individuals, as well as too many others to name for their years of dedication to the improvement of American Indian data in Oklahoma.T.D. and J.C. were supported by Building Public Health Infrastructure in Tribal Communities to Accelerate Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Indian County (grant number NU58DP006388-02-00). Research was also supported by the National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support grant P30CA225520 awarded to the University of Oklahoma Stephenson Cancer Center and used the Stephen Cancer Center Biostatistics and Research Design Shared Resource (J.C.) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R25MD011564 (A.J.). S.M. was supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number U5GM104938. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.This study was reviewed by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Institutional Review Board and determined not to be human subject's research as the analysis involved an aggregated, de-identified data set with no possibility of reidentification.The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
