Serial measurement of interleukin-6 and risk of mortality in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation: Insights from ARISTOTLE and RE-LY trials.

CONCLUSIONS: Persistent systemic inflammatory activity, assessed by repeated IL-6 measurements, is associated with mortality independent of established clinical risk factors and other strong cardiovascular biomarkers in anticoagulated patients with AF. PMID: 32510737 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Thrombosis and Haemostasis - June 7, 2020 Category: Hematology Authors: Aulin J, Hijazi Z, Siegbahn A, Andersson U, Alexander JH, Connolly SJ, Ezekowitz MD, Gersh BJ, Granger CB, Horowitz J, Hylek EM, Lopes RD, Yusuf S, Wallentin L, Oldgren J Tags: J Thromb Haemost Source Type: research