Mario Bo, Stefano Fumagalli, Luca Degli Esposti, Valentina Perrone, Melania Dovizio, Daniela Poli, Rossella Marcucci, Paolo Verdecchia, Gianpaolo Reboldi, Gregory Y H Lip, Andrea Ungar, Alessandro Boccanelli, Carlo Fumagalli, Niccolò Marchionni
INTRODUCTION: In a large nationwide administrative database including ∼35 % of Italian population, we analyzed the impact of oral anticoagulant treatment (OAT) in patients with a hospital diagnosis of non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). METHODS AND RESULTS: Of 170404 OAT-naïve patients (mean age 78.7 years; 49.4 % women), only 61.1 % were prescribed direct oral anticoagulants, DOACs, or vitamin-K antagonists, VKAs; 14.2 % were given aspirin (ASA), and 24...
October 23, 2023: European Journal of Internal Medicine