Significant Underuse of Warfarin in Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Results from the China National Stroke Registry
第一作者:Chunjuan Wang
通讯作者:Yongjun Wang
2013-12-02
发表杂志:Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
发表类型: Original Contributions
影响因子(IF): 1.669
PMID: 24291013 Pubmed原文链接 全文下载
Warfarin reduces the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) but is often underused in clinical practice. We aimed to examine the current state of warfarin use in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients with first-ever ischemic stroke (IS) or transient ischemic attack (TIA) in China and to analysis factors causing such underuse.