Stroke prevention in AF patients in Poland and other European countries: insights from the GARFIELD-AF registry.

CONCLUSIONS: The GARFIELD-AF Registry data shows how distant every day clinical practice is from the guidelines. It shows that still in Poland, as well as in the rest of Europe, too many patients with low stroke risk are treated with anticoagulants, while too frequently patients at the high stroke risk are left with no stroke prevention. Although the tendency to use non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants grows comparably in Poland and in the rest of Europe, the proportion of patients with intermediate and high stroke risk does not grow and more patients at low stroke risk are treated with anticoagulants. PMID: 26365937 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Polish Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Kardiol Pol Source Type: research