Questioning Medicine

DOAC are just as safe if not safer for warfarin for valvular afib (NOT valve replacement but moderate to severe mitral stenosis). Please, just give normal lovenox for covid patients. Stop DM drugs in the elderly cause no-glycemia is more dangerous than hyperglycemia. semaglutide works as along as you keep taking it. gestational diabetes screening should be a two stop process. Effectiveness and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in Patients With Valvular Atrial Fibrillation: A Population-Based Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 (acpjournals.org) researchers did a New-user retrospective propensity score–matched cohort study matching roughly 28,000 new users of DOACs with new users of warfarin. During a median follow-up of roughly 130 days,primary effectiveness outcome was a composite of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism. The primary safety outcome was a composite of intracranial or gastrointestinal bleeding. the rate of stroke or systemic embolism was significantly lower