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Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Advanced CKD Not Requiring Dialysis

Key takeaways

This study looked at blood thinners in people who have both an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) and advanced kidney disease, but who are not yet on dialysis. That group is usually left out of drug trials, so doctors have had little to go on. No abstract came through with this record, so the size and the findings are not available here. Work like this compares people already taking the drugs in real life, so it can show a link but cannot prove the drug caused the difference.

Who did this work

Qiaoxi Chen (Brigham and Women's Hospital) · Daniel E. Singer (Harvard University) · Edouard L. Fu (Leiden University Medical Center) · Chun‐Ting Yang (Brigham and Women's Hospital) · Kevin Pritchard (Brigham and Women's Hospital) · Rishi Desai (Brigham and Women's Hospital) · Kueiyu Joshua Lin (Brigham and Women's Hospital)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-09-04
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.32225