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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jul 19;58(4):395–401. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.03.031

Table 2. Clinical Characteristics of 6,123 Subjects with Atrial Fibrillation in Derivation Cohort Followed For 21,923 Person-years on Warfarin, Comparing Subjects Who Sustained Major Hemorrhage vs. Subjects without Major Hemorrhage.

Clinical characteristic Subjects with Major Hemorrhage
N=307
Subjects without Major Hemorrhage
N=5816
Hazard Ratio
(95% CI)
P value

% person-years

Age
 ≥ 65 years 91.5 84.3 3.3 (2.1-5.0) <0.001
 ≥ 70 years 79.7 72.1 2.7 (2.0-3.7) <0.001
 ≥ 75 years 61.7 53.1 2.5 (2.0-3.2) <0.001
Female 37.4 42.0 1.0 (0.8-1.2) 0.81
Non-white race 13.8 13.4 1.2 (0.9-1.6) 0.20
Any diagnosis of cancer 18.0 15.1 1.7 (1.3-2.2) <0.001
Prior stroke 17.4 12.4 1.4 (1.1-1.9) 0.01
Diagnosed hypertension 64.7 61.9 1.5 (1.2-1.9) <0.001
Diabetes mellitus 22.1 20.5 1.3 (1.0-1.7) 0.03
Recent myocardial infarction 0.5 0.4 0.2 (0.0-1.2) 0.08
Prior intracranial hemorrhage 0.9 0.5 0.9 (0.2-3.6) 0.89
Prior gastrointestinal hemorrhage 12.1 6.8 2.1 (1.5-2.9) <0.001
Prior other hemorrhage 2.9 3.1 1.3 (0.7-2.3) 0.48
Prior hematuria 10.3 5.0 2.8 (1.9-3.9) <0.001
Any prior hemorrhage diagnosis (all-cause) 24.1 14.5 2.2 (1.7-2.8) <0.001
Any prior hemorrhage diagnosis
 > 90 days prior 21.9 13.4 3.4 (2.6-4.3) <0.001
 Within 90 days 2.2 1.0 0.3 (0.1-0.7) 0.008
Diagnosed peptic ulcer disease 5.7 4.6 1.4 (0.9-2.2) 0.11
Diagnosed cirrhosis 1.2 0.5 2.6 (1.1-6.1) 0.03
History of hepatitis 1.3 1.0 1.3 (0.4-4.1) 0.61
Prior hospital discharge diagnosis of mechanical fall 6.5 5.3 2.2 (1.5-3.2) <0.001
Diagnosed neuropsychiatric disease 3.3 4.3 1.2 (0.7-2.0) 0.51
On clopidogrel or ticlopidine 0.9 1.0 0.5 (0.2-1.3) 0.14
Anemia 18.8 12.1 4.2 (3.4-5.3) <0.001
Platelet count < 90,000 0.6 0.5 0.5 (0.1-3.3) 0.45
Serum creatinine
 > 2.0 mg/dL 4.0 2.0 4.8 (3.4-6.6) <0.001
 > 1.5 mg/dL 9.5 5.1 3.0 (2.2-3.9) <0.001
 > 1.2 mg/dL 18.0 10.5 1.8 (1.4-2.3) <0.001
eGFR < 30 mL/min 5.9 2.7 4.3 (3.2-5.8) <0.001
On dialysis 0.6 0.4 2.4 (1.0-5.5) 0.05
Hemoglobin A1c > 7.0 4.1 4.3 0.9 (0.5-1.6) 0.68