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Does female sex increase the risk of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism in Chinese patients with atrial fibrillation not on anticoagulation?
Does female sex increase the risk of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism in Chinese patients with atrial fibrillation not on anticoagulation?
In Chinese patients with atrial fibrillation not receiving anticoagulation, female sex is not an independent risk factor for thromboembolism after multivariable adjustment.
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Does not support female sex as independent thromboembolism risk factor in non-anticoagulated Chinese AF; leaves open validation in prospective Asian cohorts.
Jiang et al. (2018) studied this question.
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