Incidence, risk factors for intracranial bleeding in older adults newly prescribed warfarin
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 16:20
in Health & Medicine
A new study included 31,951 US veterans with atrial fibrillation, 75 years or older, who were new referrals to Veterans Affairs anticoagulation clinics (for warfarin therapy) between 2002 and 2012. The researchers found that the rate of traumatic intracranial bleeding among older adults with AF initiating warfarin therapy was higher than previously reported in clinical trials.