Does Sex Affect Anticoagulant Use for Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation? The Prospective Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation


Lip G. Y. H., Rushton-Smith S. K., Goldhaber S. Z., Fitzmaurice D. A., Mantovani L. G., Goto S., ...Daha Fazla

CIRCULATION-CARDIOVASCULAR QUALITY AND OUTCOMES, cilt.8, sa.2, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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Background-Among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), women are at higher risk of stroke than men. Using prospective cohort data from a large global population of patients with nonvalvular AF, we sought to identify any differences in the use of anticoagulants for stroke prevention in women and men.