Incidence of stroke in paroxysmal versus sustained atrial fibrillation in patients taking oral anticoagulation or combined antiplatelet therapy: an ACTIVE W Substudy.

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on November 13, 2007

Authors

Stefan H Hohnloser1, Dimitri Pajitnev, Janice Pogue, Jeff S Healey, Marc A Pfeffer, Salim Yusuf, Stuart J Connolly, ACTIVE W Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiology, Division of Electrophysiology, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Hohnloser@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Associated clinical trials:

Atrial Fibrillation Clopidogrel Trial With Irbesartan for Prevention of Vascular Events (ACTIVE W) | NCT00243178

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