Cessation of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation

In ‘real world’ cohort (n=1415), persistence of DOAC use was found to be high with only 8.8 cessations/100 patient-years follow-up and rate of serious adverse events rate was low at 1.6/100 patient-years; most common cause of cessation of index DOAC (53.1%) was patient choice.

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