Anticoagulation Therapy by Age and Embolic Risk for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation in Mexico, an Upper-Middle-Income Country: The CARMEN-AF Registry

• Main Authors: Manlio F. Márquez (Author), Manuel A. Baños-González (Author), Milton E. Guevara-Valdivia (Author), Jorge Vázquez-Acosta (Author), Manuel O. de los Ríos Ibarra (Author), Julio A. Aguilar-Linares (Author), Marcelo Jiménez-Cruz (Author), Norberto Matadamas-Hernández (Author), Rocío Camacho-Casillas (Author), Reynaldo Magaña-Magaña (Author), Ulises Rojel-Martínez (Author), Marco A. Alcocer-Gamba (Author), Susano Lara-Vaca (Author), Humberto Rodríguez-Reyes (Author), Marco A. Islava-Gálvez (Author), Lidia E. Betancourt-Hernández (Author), Nicolás Reyes-Reyes (Author), Miguel E. Beltrán-Gámez (Author), Carlos Cantú-Brito (Author), Alberto Z. Baños-Velasco (Author), Pedro J. del Rivero Morfin (Author), J. Antonio González-Hermosillo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Documenting the patterns of oral anticoagulation therapy (OAT) is essential to prevent thromboembolic complications of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). Objective: To report the patterns of OAT according to age and thromboembolic risk in patients included in CARMEN-AF, a nationwide...