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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 273-280Publisher
KOREAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.3988/jcn.2017.13.3.273
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warfarin; quality; time in therapeutic range; atrial fibrillation; seconadry stroke prevention
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Background and Purpose The quality of anticoagulation is critical for ensuring the benefit of warfarin, but this has been less well studied in Korean ischemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods This study retrospectively analyzed the data of patients who had an AF-related ischemic stroke and were treated with long-term warfarin therapy in 16 Korean centers. The quality of warfarin therapy was primarily assessed by the time in therapeutic range [TTR; international normalized ratio (INR), 2.0-3.0] and additionally by the proportion of INR values within the therapeutic range. Results The long-term warfarin-treated cohort comprised 1,230 patients. They were aged 70.1 +/- 9.7 years (mean +/- SD), 42.5% were female, and their CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc score was 4.75 +/- 1.41. The TTR analysis included 33,941 INR measurements for 27,487 months: per patients, 27.6 (SD, 22.4) INR measurements for 22.4 (SD, 12.9) months. The mean TTR of individual patients was 49.1% (95% confidence interval, 47.9-50.3%), and the TTR quartiles were <34.5, 34.5-49.1, 49.164.5%, and >64.5%. None of the 16 centers achieved a mean TTR of >60%. Of all INR measurements, 44.6% were within the therapeutic range, 41.7% were <2.0, and 13.7% were >3.0. Conclusions In Korean ischemic stroke patients who had AF, the quality of warfarin therapy was low and might be inadequate to effectively prevent recurrent stroke or systemic embolism.
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