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A causal diagram demonstrating the direct effect of dabigatran on stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation using the cause-specific approach in a randomized trial. The competing event death due to gastrointestinal bleeding (DGIB) is considered a censoring event represented by a square around DGIB = 0 signifying that only those who did not experience a DGIB are included in the analysis.
