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Risk of Bleeding With Dabigatran in Atrial Fibrillation

Thursday, November 6, 2014

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Source Name: JAMA Internal Medicine

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Hernandez I, Baik SH, Piñera A, Zhang Y.

This is a new “real-world” study comparing bleeding risk in Medicare patients treated with dabigatran (n=1302) and warfarin (n=8102) for newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation. The use of dabigatran was associated with a significantly higher risk of any, major, and gastrointestinal bleeding when compared with warfarin. On the contrary, intracraneal bleeding was significantly less common among patients on dabigatran.

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