Warfarin versus aspirin for prevention of cognitive decline in atrial fibrillation: randomized controlled trial (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation Treatment of the Aged Study).

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Published in Stroke on April 01, 2014

Authors

Nahal Mavaddat1, Andrea Roalfe, Kate Fletcher, Gregory Y H Lip, F D Richard Hobbs, David Fitzmaurice, Jonathan Mant

Author Affiliations

1: From the Primary Care Unit, Strangeways Laboratory, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom (N.M., J.M.); Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom (A.R., K.F., D.F.); University of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom (G.Y.H.L.); and Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, New Radcliffe House, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (F.D.R.H.).

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