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Optimizing Anticoagulant Therapy in Frail Elderly AF Patients: Insights from the COMBINE-AF Substudy
Switching frail, elderly atrial fibrillation patients from warfarin to standard-dose DOAC reduced stroke, fatal and intracranial bleeding, and death, though gastrointestinal bleeding increased. Major bleeding and net clinical outcome remained similar.