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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Sep 28;69(2):349–356. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16822

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Association of anticoagulant use with count of geriatric syndromes. Count of syndromes is the sum of impairment in each of the five syndromes defined in the table. Impairments defined as noninjurious fall or injurious fall, activity of daily living (ADL) difficulty or dependency, instrumental ADL (IADL) difficulty or dependency, cognitive impairment or dementia, and incontinence. Analysis based on 768 participants; we excluded 8 with missing geriatric syndrome data, 2 with missing data on anticoagulant use, and 1 missing data on both. The slope represented the marginal effect of one-unit change in count of geriatric syndromes on anticoagulant use, adjusting for stroke risk (CHA2DS2-VASc score). The shaded area represents the 95% confidence interval. The slope is −3.7% (95% confidence interval = − 5.9% to −1.4%). Different functional forms were assessed—a linear relationship produced the best fit (see Supplementary Table S3).