Risks and Benefits of Direct Oral Anticoagulants across the Spectrum of GFR among Incident and Prevalent Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: All randomized trials of direct oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation excluded patients with severe kidney disease. The safety and effectiveness of direct oral anticoagulants across the range of eGFR in real-world settings is unknown. Our objective is to quantify the risk of bleeding and benefit of ischemic stroke prevention for direct oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation with and without CKD.

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: We created a propensity score-matched cohort of 3206 patients with atrial fibrillation and direct oral anticoagulant use and 3206 patients with atrial fibrillation using warfarin from October of 2010 to February of 2017 in an electronic health record (Geisinger Health System). The risks of bleeding and ischemic stroke were compared between direct oral anticoagulant and warfarin users using Cox proportional hazards regression, stratified by eGFR (≥60 and <60 ml/min per 1.73 m2).

RESULTS: The mean (SD) age of the 6412 participants was 72 (12) years, 47% were women, and average eGFR was 69 (21) ml/min per 1.73 m2. There were 1181 bleeding events and 466 ischemic strokes over 7391 person-years of follow-up. Compared with warfarin use, the hazard ratios (HRs) (95% confidence interval [95% CI]) of bleeding associated with direct oral anticoagulant use were 1.01 (0.88 to 1.17) and 1.23 (1.02 to 1.48) for those with eGFR≥60 and eGFR<60 ml/min per 1.73 m2, respectively (P-interaction=0.10). There was no difference between direct oral anticoagulant and warfarin users in the risk of ischemic stroke: HRs (95% CI) of 0.94 (0.74 to 1.18) and 1.02 (0.76 to 1.37) for those with eGFR≥60 and eGFR<60 ml/min per 1.73 m2, respectively (P-interaction=0.70). Similar findings were observed with individual drugs.

CONCLUSIONS: In a large health care system, patients with eGFR<60 ml/min per 1.73 m2 who took direct oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation had slightly higher risk of bleeding compared with those on warfarin, but similar benefits from prevention of ischemic stroke.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - 13(2018), 8 vom: 07. Aug., Seite 1144-1152

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shin, Jung-Im [VerfasserIn]
Secora, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Alexander, G Caleb [VerfasserIn]
Inker, Lesley A [VerfasserIn]
Coresh, Josef [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Alex R [VerfasserIn]
Grams, Morgan E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Anticoagulants
Atrial Fibrillation
Brain Ischemia
Chronic kidney disease
Confidence Intervals
Direct Oral Anticoagulants
Electronic Health Records
Female
Follow-up Studies
Glomerular filtration rate
Hemorrhage
Humans
Journal Article
Kidney
Propensity Score
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Risk Assessment
Stroke
Warfarin

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Date Completed 11.12.2019

Date Revised 13.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2215/CJN.13811217

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM286432250