Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 13 2019, @09:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the fun-of-growing-old dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The net clinical benefit of anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation (AF) -- one of the most important causes of irregular heartbeats and a leading cause of stroke -- decreases with age, as the risk of death from other factors diminishes their benefit in older patients, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.

The multi-institutional study of nearly 15,000 AF patients found that the anticoagulant warfarin was not beneficial after age 87 and another, apixaban, after age 92. As a result, physicians should consider all mortality risks, such as cancer and end-stage kidney disease, when recommending anticoagulants to older adults with AF, the researchers said.

[...] "Many prior studies looking at the benefit of blood thinners found older adults benefit more than younger adults, but they narrowly focus on atrial fibrillation and strokes and don't account for all other health conditions affecting older adults," said lead author Sachin Shah, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at UCSF. "Our study is the first to find that when taking these factors into consideration, anticoagulant benefit actually decreases with age."

Atrial fibrillation affects an estimated 2.2 million Americans, according to the National Stroke Association, and about 15 percent of people who have strokes have AF. The stroke association estimates that up to 80 percent of strokes among people with AF could have been prevented.

While patients age 75 and older are at higher risk for stroke and advised to use anticoagulants, there is little evidence of their net benefit in this population. Advancing age also increases the likelihood of death from non-AF causes, thereby limiting the benefit or harm from AF and anticoagulant treatment.

Journal Reference:

Sachin J. Shah, Daniel E. Singer, Margaret C. Fang, Kristi Reynolds, Alan S. Go, Mark H. Eckman. Net Clinical Benefit of Oral Anticoagulation Among Older Adults With Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2019; 12 (11) DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.119.006212


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @10:57PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @10:57PM (#920052)

    You too will be old soon. OK with that? I'd rather have some help.
    And help save the young'uns from malaria, cholera, measles, etc.
    There's enough resources.
    Signed, a different gen-xer.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Thursday November 14 2019, @01:16AM (3 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday November 14 2019, @01:16AM (#920113) Journal
    WTF. Back in the 70s, baby boomers were born in the decade after WW2 - 1945 - 1954. There was an echo a couple of decades later when the boomers had their own kids. Now boomer applies to anyone born between 1945 and 1980. And everyone is homogeneous - easy access to everything, everything was cheap, nobody had challenges.

    Another bunch of fiction - plenty of those who are now classified as boomers experienced the same problems the latest generation complains about, but without either the safety net or the acceptance that failure might not be a moral failing.

    Revisionism is strong with tho "ok boomer" generation. Every generation has its challenges. People leading lives of quiet desperation were par for the course. It's only now that people have easy access to platforms where they can broadcast their misery that is seems worse, but it's not.

    --
    SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @01:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @01:31AM (#920128)

      A boomer.

      source: been hanging out in some youngin channels. If you're over 20-something you're considered a boomer now. I'm a post '80 and getting called that :)

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @05:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @05:34PM (#920424)

      Barbara (tom) Hudson CHEMICALLY CASTRATED itself with estrogen since you failed as a man lol! You also FAIL as a "woman" you NEUTERED delusional freakazoid! What is is like knowing you are a living mockery. A parody of both a 'woman' or a man? You know that. Everyone knows it about you "TraNsTeSticLe" hohohohoho. Barbara Hudson is a twistoid mental case deluding itself it is a REAL woman. Clue: You will never EVER be able to pass a DNA test due to the fact you do not, nor did you ever, possess female mitochondrial material you crackpot weirdo. It isn't logical to attempt to "fix" bodyparts that work with no issues. You had a working (extremely small) penis and balls you sawed off with estrogen hahahahaha!

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @05:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @05:37PM (#920426)

      Barbara (tom) Hudson CHEMICALLY CASTRATED itself with estrogen since you failed as a man lol! You also FAIL as a "woman" you NEUTERED delusional freakazoid! What is is like knowing you are a living mockery? A parody of both a 'woman' or a man! You know that. Everyone knows it about you "TraNsTeSticLe" hohohohoho. Barbara Hudson is a twistoid mental case deluding itself it is a REAL woman. Clue: You will never EVER be able to pass a DNA test due to the fact you do not, nor did you ever, possess female mitochondrial material you crackpot weirdo. It isn't logical to attempt to "fix" bodyparts that work with no issues. You had a working (extremely small) penis and balls you sawed off with estrogen hahahaha!