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ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
卷 151, 期 5, 页码 297-U16出版社
AMER COLL PHYSICIANS
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-151-5-200909010-00003
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- National Institute on Aging [R01 AG15478, K23 AG28978]
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [U19 HL091179]
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [U19HL091179] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG015478, K23AG028978] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Background: Guidelines recommend warfarin use in patients with atrial fibrillation solely on the basis of risk for ischemic stroke without antithrombotic therapy. These guidelines rely on ischemic stroke rates observed in older trials and do not explicitly account for increased risk for hemorrhage. Objective: To quantify the net clinical benefit of warfarin therapy in a cohort of patients with atrial fibrillation. Design: Mixed retrospective and prospective cohort study of patients with atrial fibrillation between 1996 and 2003. Setting: An integrated health care delivery system. Patients: 13 559 adults with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Measurements: Warfarin exposure, patient characteristics, CHADS(2) score ( 1 point for each of congestive heart failure, hypertension, age, and diabetes and 2 points for stroke), and outcome events were ascertained from health plan records and databases. Net clinical benefit was defined as the annual rate of ischemic strokes and systemic emboli prevented by warfarin minus intracranial hemorrhages attributable to warfarin, multiplied by an impact weight. The base-case impact weight was 1.5, reflecting the greater clinical impact of intracranial hemorrhage versus thromboembolism. Results: Patients accumulated more than 66 000 person-years of follow-up. The adjusted net clinical benefit of warfarin for the cohort overall was 0.68% per year (95% CI, 0.34% to 0.87%). Adjusted net clinical benefit was greatest for patients with a history of ischemic stroke (2.48% per year [ CI, 0.75% to 4.22%]) and for those 85 years or older (2.34% per year [ CI, 1.29% to 3.30%]). The net clinical benefit of warfarin increased from essentially zero in CHADS(2) stroke risk categories 0 and 1 to 2.22% per year ( CI, 0.58% to 3.75%) in CHADS(2) categories 4 to 6. The patterns of results were preserved when weighting factors for intracranial hemorrhage of 1.0 and 2.0 were used. Limitations: Residual confounding is a possibility. Some outcome events were probably missed by the screening algorithm or when medical records were unavailable. Conclusion: Expected net clinical benefit of warfarin therapy is highest among patients with the highest untreated risk for stroke, which includes the oldest age category. Risk assessment that incorporates both risk for thromboembolism and risk for intracranial hemorrhage provides a more quantitatively informed basis for the decision on antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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