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Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients Initiating First-Line Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes With Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors Versus Metformin : A Cohort Study
CONCLUSION: As first-line T2D treatment, initiators receiving SGLT-2i showed a similar risk for MI/stroke/mortality, lower risk for HHF/mortality and HHF, and a similar safety profile except for an increased risk for genital infections compared with those receiving metformin.PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.PMID:35605236 | DOI:10.7326/M21-4012
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine - May 23, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: HoJin Shin Sebastian Schneeweiss Robert J Glynn Elisabetta Patorno Source Type: research

Unrecognized Cardiovascular Emergencies Among Medicare Patients
This cohort study estimates the proportions of emergency department visits attributable to symptoms of imminent ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, aortic dissection, and subarachnoid hemorrhage that end in discharge without diagnosis.
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - February 26, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Dabigatran Compared With Rivaroxaban vs Warfarin
To the Editor In a recent issue ofJAMA Internal Medicine, Graham et al reported that rivaroxaban use increased risks of major bleeding with nonsignificant reduction in thromboembolic stroke and increased mortality compared with dabigatran in elderly Medicare beneficiaries newly treated with dabigatran or rivaroxaban for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (November 2011-June 2014). However, dabigatran event rates were lower than reported by Graham et al in a larger group of elderly Medicare beneficiaries newly treated with dabigatran or warfarin for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation with longer follow-up during a partially overl...
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - May 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Dabigatran vs Rivaroxaban for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
This cohort study compares risks of thromboembolic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, major extracranial bleeding, and mortality in Medicare beneficiaries with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation who initiated dabigatran or rivaroxaban therapy for stroke prevention.
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 1, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Clinical Benefit of American College of Chest Physicians versus European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for Stroke Prophylaxis in Atrial Fibrillation
CONCLUSIONS By expanding warfarin use to 65-–74-year-olds with a CHADS2 score of 0, rates of hemorrhages would rise without a significant reduction in stroke equivalents.
Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine - February 10, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research