作者
Nijole Bernaitis, Chi Keong Ching, Liping Chen, Jin Shing Hon, Siew Chong Teo, Andrew K Davey, Shailendra Anoopkumar-Dukie
发表日期
2017/1/1
期刊
Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
卷号
26
期号
1
页码范围
64-69
出版商
WB Saunders
简介
Background
Warfarin reduces stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients but requires ongoing monitoring. Time in therapeutic range (TTR) is used as a measure of warfarin control, with a TTR less than 60% associated with adverse patient outcomes. The Sex, Age, Medical history, Treatment, Tobacco use, Race (SAMe-TT2R2) score has been identified as a model able to predict warfarin control, but this has been tested in mainly Caucasian populations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the ability of the SAMe-TT2R2 score to predict warfarin control in a Singaporean population consisting of Chinese, Malay, and Indian race.
Methods
Retrospective data were collected from the National Heart Centre Singapore for AF patients receiving warfarin between January and June 2014. The TTR and the SAMe-TT2R2 score were calculated for each patient.
Results
The 1137 non-valvular AF patients had a mean …
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