Lower Oral Anticoagulant Prescribing for Atrial Fibrillation in Women Compared With Men

Affiliations

¹ VA Northern California Healthcare System, Mather, California; Department of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California. Electronic address: veena.manja@va.gov.
² VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, California; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
³ VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, California; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California.
⁴ VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), Menlo Park, California.
⁵ VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, California; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), Menlo Park, California; Division of Primary Care and Population Health, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

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Veena Manja et al. Am J Cardiol. 2024.

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. 2024 May 15:219:44-46.

doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2024.03.023. Epub 2024 Mar 26.

¹ VA Northern California Healthcare System, Mather, California; Department of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California. Electronic address: veena.manja@va.gov.
² VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, California; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
³ VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, California; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California.
⁴ VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), Menlo Park, California.
⁵ VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, California; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), Menlo Park, California; Division of Primary Care and Population Health, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; gender disparities; oral anticoagulation.

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The authors have no competing interest to declare.