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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2019 Mar 17;139(22):2502–2512. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.038988

Table 2:

Proportion Receiving Oral Anticoagulation by Index Device-Detected AF Episode Burden

Index Device-Detected AF Episode Burden
> 6 Minutes > 1 Hour > 6 Hours > 24 Hours
Included Patients 2,101 1,712 1,279 818
CHA2DS2-VASc Score (mean±SD) 3.9 ± 1.4 4.0 ± 1.4 4.0 ± 1.4 4.2 ± 1.4
HAS-BLED Score* (mean±SD) 2.7 ± 1.1 2.6 ± 1.1 2.7 ± 1.1 2.8 ± 1.1
OAC Prescribed, 272 (13.0%) 273 (16.0%) 263 (20.6%) 224 (27.4%)
Warfarin Prescribed 258 (94.9%) 257 (94.1%) 246 (93.5%) 208 (92.9%)
NOAC Prescribed 14 (5.1%) 17 (6.2%) 18 (6.8%) 18 (8.0%)
Days from Device-Detected AF to OAC (mean±SD) 31.2 ± 24.6 31.9 ± 24.4 30.7 ± 24.0 33.3 ± 24.1
*

Excludes labile international normalized ratio component;

Within 90 days of index AF episode;

Warfarin and NOAC prescription are not mutually exclusive within 90-days of index AF episode.

AF: atrial fibrillation; NOAC: non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants; OAC: oral anticoagulation; SD: standard deviation