Table 1.
Baseline Patient Characteristics (N = 200)
| Clinical | |
| Age, y | 68.3 ± 8.7 |
| Men | 113 (56.5) |
| Congestive heart failure | 8 (4.0) |
| Hypertension | 127 (63.5) |
| Age ≥65 y | 133 (66.5) |
| Age ≥75 y | 44 (22.0) |
| Diabetes mellitus | 50 (25.0) |
| Previous history of TIA/stroke | 70 (35.0) |
| Coronary artery disease | 40 (20.0) |
| NYHA functional class | |
| I | 62 (31.0) |
| II | 136 (68.0) |
| III | 2 (1.0) |
| CHA2DS2-VASc score | 3.5 ± 1.4 |
| 2 | 56 (28.0) |
| 3 | 58 (29.0) |
| 4 | 42 (21.0) |
| 5 | 21 (10.5) |
| 6 | 18 (9.0) |
| 7 | 3 (1.5) |
| 8 | 2 (1.0) |
| HAS-BLED score | 2.5 ± 1.2 |
| 0 | 11 (5.5) |
| 1 | 37 (18.5) |
| 2 | 55 (27.5) |
| 3 | 71 (35.5) |
| 4 | 18 (9.0) |
| 5 | 6 (3.0) |
| 6 | 2 (1.0) |
Values are mean ± SD or n (%).
CHA2DS2-VASc = congestive heart failure, hypertension, age, diabetes, previous stroke/transient ischemic attack, vascular disease, female sex score; HAS-BLED = hypertension, abnormal renal/liver function, stroke, bleeding score; NYHA = New York Heart Association; TIA = transient ischemic attack.