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View Post: Dabigatran vs. warfarin for prevention of stroke in atrial ...
27 Oct 2009 by bowersc  
For those at high risk, warfarin is recommended, although aspirin can be considered where warfarin is contraindicated. For those at moderate risk of stroke either warfarin or aspirin can be considered, and for people at low risk of ...
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View Post: Warfarin Use Associates with Increased Risk for Stroke in ...
30 Sep 2009 by Chan, KE, Lazarus, JM, Thadhani, R., Hakim, RM  
Compared with nonuse, warfarin use associated with a significantly increased risk for new stroke (hazard ratio 1.93; 95% confidence interval 1.29 to 2.90); clopidogrel or aspirin use did not associate with increased risk for new stroke. ...
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View Post: The Net Clinical Benefit of Warfarin Anticoagulation in Atrial ...
1 Sep 2009 by Daniel E. Singer, Yuchiao Chang, Margaret...  
The net clinical benefit of warfarin increased from essentially zero in CHADS2 stroke risk categories 0 and 1 to 2.22% per year (CI, 0.58% to 3.75%) in CHADS2 categories 4 to 6. The patterns of results were preserved when weighting ...
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View Post: Cardiovascular Medicine » Dabigatran Versus Warfarin in Patients ...
27 Oct 2009 by Springer  
Warfarin is a vitamin K antagonist used in patients with AF to reduce their risk of stroke and death, but it has a primary complication of intracranial hemorrhage. Therefore, results showing that the dose of 150 mg of dabigatran was ...
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View Post: Title of the media release: National Prescribing Service Ltd NPS
1 Nov 2009
A focus of the therapeutic program is the use of warfarin therapy in reducing the risk of thromboembolic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, as well as ways to improve its safe use. “Warfarin offers enormous benefits in ...
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View Post: Cerebral Microbleeds in Ischemic Stroke Patients on Warfarin ...
17 Sep 2009 by Necioglu Orken, D., Kenangil, G., Uysal,...  
Methods—A total of 141 ischemic stroke patients on warfarin therapy were enrolled in this study. One hundred five patients with similar demographic features who do not use warfarin were chosen as controls. We compared vascular risk ...
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View Post: foodconsumer.org - New drug beats warfarin in reducing stroke risk
31 Aug 2009
A new experimental drug is able to cut the risk of stroke in patients with irregular heartbeats by more than three times compared with the conventional anti-clotting drug warfarin, according to a study presented at the European Society ...
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View Post: Dabigatran Beats Warfarin for Stroke Prevention in Atrial ...
9 Sep 2009 by Mellanie True Hills  
Trial results showed that dabigatran, a potential Coumadin® replacement that is marketed under the brand name of Pradaxa outside the U.S., is more effective than warfarin at preventing strokes from clotting (ischemic stroke) and ...
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