… comparative effectiveness, safety, and health care costs of oral anticoagulants in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients in the US Department of Defense Population

K Gupta, J Trocio, A Keshishian, Q Zhang… - Journal of managed …, 2018 - jmcp.org
BACKGROUND: The ARISTOTLE trial demonstrated that apixaban had significantly lower
rates of stroke/systemic embolism (SE) and major bleeding than warfarin; however, no direct …

[HTML][HTML] … safety of direct oral anticoagulants compared to warfarin in treatment naïve non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients in the US Department of defense population

K Gupta, J Trocio, A Keshishian, Q Zhang… - BMC cardiovascular …, 2019 - Springer
… (SE) among patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF), but the comparative risk
of major bleeding varies between DOACs and warfarin. Using US Department of Defense (DOD) …

Defensive medicine due to different fears by patients and physicians in geriatric atrial fibrillation patients and second victim syndrome

O Ozeke, S Aras, K Baser… - International …, 2016 - internationaljournalofcardiology.com
The treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients has altered … and under-education of AF patients
continue [5] despite their … In a 1-year study of elderly patients with AF, 26% of patients 80 …

Association between oxidative stress and atrial fibrillation

AS Tahhan, PB Sandesara, SS Hayek, A Alkhoder… - Heart rhythm, 2017 - Elsevier
… Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac … ) overwhelms endogenous
antioxidant defenses, causing … were predictors of mortality in a population with CAD. This study …

Vaccination and risk of lone atrial fibrillation in the active component United States military

MM McNeil, SK Duderstadt, JF Sabatier… - Human vaccines & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… individuals diagnosed with atrial fibrillation in the Defense Medical Surveillance System, and
… of atrial fibrillation in our study population may not have been detected if the patient was in …

Traumatic injury and atrial fibrillation among deployed service members

KC Alcover, SR Ambardar, E Poltavskiy… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… represent the US population. Casualties from military combat are a unique group of patients,
and our results may not be generalizable to patients from the general population. Third, the …

Cardiac fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation: mechanisms and clinical implications

MS Dzeshka, GYH Lip, V Snezhitskiy… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - jacc.org
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with structural, electrical, and contractile remodeling of the
atria. Development and progression of atrial fibrosis is the hallmark of structural remodeling …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating lipopolysaccharides and impaired antioxidant status in patients with atrial fibrillation. Data from the ATHERO-AF study

D Menichelli, R Carnevale, C Nocella… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… selenium dependent GPx as a mechanism of defense against the LPS-induced oxidative
stress … only Caucasian AF patients, and we could not extend our findings to other populations. …

Non-hypoxic preconditioning of myocardium against postoperative atrial fibrillation: mechanism based on enhancement of the antioxidant defense system

R Rodrigo, R Castillo, M Cereceda, R Asenjo… - Medical hypotheses, 2007 - Elsevier
… in the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation. Thus, increased … from patients with atrial fibrillation.
Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that the reinforcement of the antioxidant defense

Oxidative stress markers are associated with persistent atrial fibrillation

RB Neuman, HL Bloom, I Shukrullah… - Clinical …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been associated with myocardial oxidative stress,
and antioxidant agents have demonstrated antiarrhythmic benefit in humans. We compared …