- 著者
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             Yasuo Okumura
             
             Katsuaki Yokoyama
             
             Naoya Matsumoto
             
             Eizo Tachibana
             
             Keiichiro Kuronuma
             
             Koji Oiwa
             
             Michiaki Matsumoto
             
             Toshiaki Kojima
             
             Shoji Hanada
             
             Kazumiki Nomoto
             
             Ken Arima
             
             Fumiyuki Takahashi
             
             Tomobumi Kotani
             
             Yukitoshi Ikeya
             
             Seiji Fukushima
             
             Satoru Itou
             
             Kunio Kondo
             
             Masaaki Chiku
             
             Yasumi Ohno
             
             Motoyuki Onikura
             
             Atsushi Hirayama
             
             for the SAKURA AF Registry Investigators
             
          
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.82, no.10, pp.2500-2509, 2018-09-25 (Released:2018-09-25)
- 参考文献数
- 20
- 被引用文献数
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             55
             
             
          
        
        Background: Although direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are widely used in Japanese patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), large-scale investigations into their use, with suitable follow-up times and rates, are lacking. Methods and Results: The SAKURA AF Registry is a prospective multicenter registry created to investigate therapeutic outcomes of oral anticoagulant (OAC) use in Japanese AF patients. We conducted a study involving 3,237 enrollees from 63 institutions in the Tokyo area being treated with any of 4 DOACs (n=1,676) or warfarin (n=1,561) and followed-up for a median of 39.3 months (range 28.5–43.6 months). Analyses of 1- and 2-year follow-up data available for 3,157 (97.5%) and 2,952 (91.2%) patients, respectively, showed no significant differences in rates of stroke or systemic embolism (SE), major bleeding, and all-cause mortality for DOAC vs. warfarin users (1.2 vs. 1.8%/year, 0.5 vs. 1.2%/year, and 2.1 vs. 1.7%/year, respectively). Under propensity score matching, the incidence of stroke or SE (P=0.679) and all-cause death (P=0.864) remained equivalent, but the incidence of major bleeding was significantly lower (P=0.014) among DOAC than warfarin users. Conclusions: A high follow-up rate allowed us to obtain reliable data on the status of OAC use and therapeutic outcomes among AF patients in Japan. Warfarin and DOACs appear to yield equivalent 3-year stroke and all-cause mortality rates, but DOACs appear to reduce the risk of major bleeding.