Journal article
Stroke and Bleeding Risk Co-distribution in Real-world Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: The Euro Heart Survey
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The choice to recommend antithrombotic therapy to patients with atrial fibrillation should rely on cardioembolic and bleeding risk stratification. Sharing some risk factors, schemes to predict thrombotic and bleeding risk are expected not to be independent, yet the degree of their association has never been clearly quantified.
METHODS: We described the cardioembolic (Congestive heart failure, Hypertension, Age >75, Diabetes …
Authors
Marcucci M; Lip GYH; Nieuwlaat R; Pisters R; Crijns HJGM; Iorio A
Journal
The American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 127, No. 10, pp. 979–986.e2
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
10 2014
DOI
10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.05.003
ISSN
0002-9343