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Risk Of Gastrointestinal Bleeding Associated With Oral Anticoagulants: Population Based Retrospective Cohort Study, Hsien-Yen Chang, Meijia Zhou, Wenze Tang, G. Caleb Alexander, Sonal Singh
Risk Of Gastrointestinal Bleeding Associated With Oral Anticoagulants: Population Based Retrospective Cohort Study, Hsien-Yen Chang, Meijia Zhou, Wenze Tang, G. Caleb Alexander, Sonal Singh
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Objectives To determine the real world safety of dabigatran or rivaroxaban compared with warfarin in terms of gastrointestinal bleeding.
Design Retrospective cohort study.
Setting Large administrative database of commercially insured people in United States from 1 October 2010 through 31 March 2012.
Participants Enrollees with a prescription of warfarin, dabigatran, or rivaroxaban between 1 October 2010 and 31 March 2012, who were aged 18 years or older, had continuous enrollment and no oral anticoagulant use during the six months before the entry date, with known age and sex, and with no gastrointestinal bleeding for at least six months before the …