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Acute coronary syndrome

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Therapy

Avoid anticoagulation a  

Why?

  • Long-term oral anticoagulation increases major bleeding, without clearly reducing cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction or stroke. a  

Long-term oral anticoagulation increases major bleeding

Patient Treatment Comparison Outcome CER RRI
(95% CI)		 NNH
(95% CI)
unstable angina a long-term oral anticoagulation placebo major bleeding
at 5 months 		1.3% 98%
(23% to 220%) 		76
(45 to 240)

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Authors   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   I K   Jang
CAT Writers   N   Shenker , CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , RS   Phillips