Bryan Cotton: DOACs Versus No Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation
Bryan Cotton, Faculty Researcher-Coagulation, The John B. Holmes Endowed Chair and Professor of Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), shared a post on X about a recent article by Daehoon Kim et al., published in NEJM, adding:
“Those amazing DOACs versus nothing…
Cumulative risk of stroke, embolism, getting hit by a car went from 1.5 to 0.5%.
NNT…100 pts
Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation with Intermediate Stroke Risk, New England Journal of Medicine”
Title: Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation with Intermediate Stroke Risk
Authors: Daehoon Kim, Young Soo Lee, Jaemin Shim, Hee Tae Yu, Junbeom Park, Jin-Kyu Park, Il-Young Oh, Ki-Woon Kang, Eue-Keun Choi, Kyoung-Min Park, Hyoung-Seob Park, Dae-Hyeok Kim, Hyung Wook Park, Jun Kim, Jum-Suk Ko, Dongmin Kim, Jong-Youn Kim, Jin-Bae Kim, Jung-Hoon Sung, Tae-Hoon Kim, Jae-Sun Uhm, Hui-Nam Pak, Boyoung Joung
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