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No Net Benefit from Adding Antiplatelet Therapy to Anticoagulation After Ischemic Stroke With Atrial Fibrillation and Atherosclerosis — Higher Bleeding Risk
In a randomized trial of 316 patients with ischemic stroke/TIA, nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, and atherosclerotic disease, adding an antiplatelet to anticoagulation did not reduce ischemic events but doubled clinically relevant bleeding compared with anticoagulant monotherapy.

