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Multicenter Study
. 2022 Aug;53(8):2549-2558.
doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.038285. Epub 2022 Apr 20.

Impact of Previous Stroke on Clinical Outcome in Elderly Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: ANAFIE Registry

Takeshi Yoshimoto  1   2 , Kazunori Toyoda  3 , Masafumi Ihara  1 , Hiroshi Inoue  4 , Takeshi Yamashita  5 , Shinya Suzuki  5 , Masaharu Akao  6 , Hirotsugu Atarashi  7 , Takanori Ikeda  8 , Ken Okumura  9 , Yukihiro Koretsune  10 , Wataru Shimizu  11 , Hiroyuki Tsutsui  12 , Atsushi Hirayama  13 , Masahiro Yasaka  14 , Hirofumi Maruyama, Satoshi Teramukai  15 , Tetsuya Kimura  16 , Yoshiyuki Morishima  16 , Atsushi Takita  17 , Takenori Yamaguchi  3
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Multicenter Study

Impact of Previous Stroke on Clinical Outcome in Elderly Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: ANAFIE Registry

Takeshi Yoshimoto et al. Stroke. 2022 Aug.

Abstract

Background: We determined the long-term event incidence among elderly patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in terms of history of stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA) and oral anticoagulation.

Methods: Patients aged ≥75 years with documented nonvalvular atrial fibrillation enrolled in the prospective, multicenter, observational All Nippon Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly Registry between October 2016 and January 2018 were divided into 2 groups according to history of stroke/TIA. The primary end point was the occurrence of stroke/systemic embolism within 2 years, and secondary end points were major bleeding and all-cause death within 2 years. Cox models were used to determine whether there was a difference in the hazard of each end point in patients with/without history of stroke/TIA, and in ischemic stroke/TIA survivors taking direct oral anticoagulants versus those taking warfarin.

Results: Of 32 275 evaluable patients (13 793 women [42.7%]; median age, 81.0 years), 7304 (22.6%) had a history of stroke/TIA. The patients with previous stroke/TIA were more likely to be male and older and had higher hazard rates of stroke/systemic embolism (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.25 [95% CI, 1.97-2.58]), major bleeding (1.25, 1.05-1.49), and all-cause death (1.13, 1.02-1.24) than the other groups. Of 6446 patients with prior ischemic stroke/TIA, 4393 (68.2%) were taking direct oral anticoagulants and 1668 (25.9%) were taking warfarin at enrollment. The risk of stroke/systemic embolism was comparable between these 2 groups (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.90 [95% CI, 0.71-1.14]), while the risk of major bleeding (0.67, 0.48-0.94), intracranial hemorrhage (0.57, 0.39-0.85), and cardiovascular death (0.71, 0.51-0.99) was lower among those taking direct oral anticoagulants.

Conclusions: Patients aged ≥75 years with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and previous stroke/TIA more commonly had subsequent ischemic and hemorrhagic events than those without previous stroke/TIA. Among patients with previous ischemic stroke/TIA, the risk of hemorrhagic events was lower in patients taking direct oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin.

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Clinicaltrials: gov; Unique Identifier: UMIN000024006.

Keywords: atrial fibrillation; cardioembolism; direct oral anticoagulants; elderly; intracranial hemorrhage; stroke.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Patient study flow. *Includes patients of unknown stroke type (n=490). DOAC indicates direct oral anticoagulant; HS, hemorrhagic stroke; IS, ischemic stroke; OAC, oral anticoagulant; and TIA, transient ischemic attack.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Kaplan-Meier curves for primary and secondary end points in the total population. Hazard ratios (HRs) of patients with previous stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA) group are shown with reference to those without previous stroke/TIA. P values shown are for comparisons between groups with vs without previous stroke/TIA. HS indicates hemorrhagic stroke; and IS, ischemic stroke.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for medication (direct oral anticoagulant [DOAC] vs warfarin) of stroke or systemic embolism in patients with previous ischemic stroke/transient ischemic attack. AF indicates atrial fibrillation.
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