Racial and Sex Disparities in Anticoagulation After Electrical Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter

Background Anticoagulation is indicated for 4 weeks after cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter. We sought to examine whether there is evidence of sex or racial disparity in anticoagulant prescription following cardioversion, and whether postcardioversion anticoagulation affects...

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Main Authors: Amgad Mentias, Shady Nakhla, Milind Y. Desai, Oussama Wazni, Venu Menon, Samir Kapadia, Mary Vaughan Sarrazin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-09-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
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Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.121.021674