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. 2017 Sep 4;1(2):172–179. doi: 10.1002/rth2.12036

Table 4.

Rates of VTE recurrences and major bleeding, according to the presence of age ≥75 years, CrCl ≤50 mL/min and/or body weight ≤50 kg

N VTE recurrences Major bleeding
N (%) OR (95% CI) N (%) OR (95% CI)
Non‐fragile 8819 123 (1.4%) Ref. 124 (1.4%) Ref.
Age ≥75 years only 2967 22 (0.7%) 0.5 (0.3‐0.8) 62 (2.1%) 1.5 (1.1‐2.0)
CrCl ≤50 mL/min only 521 6 (1.2%) 0.8 (0.3‐1.8) 23 (4.4%) 3.2 (2.0‐5.0)
Body weight ≤50 kg only 183 3 (1.6%) 1.2 (0.3‐3.3) 2 (1.1%) 0.8 (0.1‐2.6)
Age ≥75 years and CrCl ≤50 mL/min 2235 16 (0.7%) 0.5 (0.3‐0.8) 60 (2.7%) 1.9 (1.4‐2.6)
Age ≥75 years and body weight ≤50 kg 51 0 1 (2.0%) 1.4 (0.1‐7.3)
CrCl ≤50 mL/min and weight ≤50 kg 42 1 (2.4%) 1.7 (0.1‐9.0) 2 (4.8%) 3.5 (0.6‐12.4)
All 3 conditions 261 1 (0.4%) 0.3 (0.01‐1.4) 12 (4.6%) 3.4 (1.8‐6.0)

CI, confidence intervals; CrCl, creatinine clearance; OR, odds ratio; Ref., reference; VTE, venous thromboembolism.