Residual risk of stroke and death in anticoagulant-treated patients with atrial fibrillation

JAMA Cardiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 366-368

  Freedman, Ben ^a,b,c   Martinez, Carlos ^d   Katholing, Anja ^d   Rietbrock, Stephan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

^d Institute for Epidemiology Statistics and Informatics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; MORTALITY;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE; WARFARIN;

EID: 84991614091     PISSN: 23806583     EISSN: 23806591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.0393     Document Type: Letter

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