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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/88589| Title: | Advancing age and bleeding risk are the strongest barriers to anticoagulant prescription in atrial fibrillation |
| Authors: | Riva, Nicoletta Smith, Danielle E. Lip, Gregory Y. H. Lane, Deirdre A. |
| Keywords: | Anticoagulants (Medicine) Anticoagulants (Medicine) -- Administration Thrombosis |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society |
| Citation: | Riva, N., Smith, D. E., Lip, G. Y., & Lane, D. A. (2011). Advancing age and bleeding risk are the strongest barriers to anticoagulant prescription in atrial fibrillation. Age and Ageing, 40(6), 653-655. |
| Abstract: | In clinical practice many patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) at high thromboembolic risk fail to receive adequate oral anticoagulation (OAC) [1]. The complex management of anticoagulant therapy [frequent international normalised ratio (INR) monitoring because of narrow therapeutic window, interaction with food and alcohol, concomitant medications and comorbities], the overestimation of bleeding risk and the underestimation of stroke risk, may partially explain physicians’ reluctance to prescribe anticoagulation. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/88589 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SPat |
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