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Table 1 Patient background information

From: Elderly patients with atrial fibrillation in routine clinical practice—peri-procedural management of edoxaban oral anticoagulation therapy is associated with a low risk of bleeding and thromboembolic complications: a subset analysis of the prospective, observational, multinational EMIT-AF study

Age group (years)

 < 65

 ≥ 65

 < 75

 ≥ 75

 ≥ 65 to < 75

 ≥ 75 to < 85

 ≥ 85

# of subjects

280

1162

830

612

550

514

98

Age mean (SD)

56.5 (7.2)

75.5 (6.4)

65.4 (8.0)

80.5 (4.2)

69.9 (2.9)

79.1 (2.8)

87.8 (2.8)

Male n (%)

206 (73.6)

715 (61.5)

593 (71.4)

328 (53.6)

387 (70.4)

281 (54.7)

47 (48.0)

BMI mean (SD)

28.8 (5.4)

27.1 (4.7)

28.2 (5.1)

26.5 (4.5)

27.8 (4.8)

26.7 (4.6)

25.6 (3.9)

Hypertension n (%)

161 (57.5)

893 (76.9)

568 (68.4)

486 (79.4)

407 (74.0)

405 (78.8)

81 (82.7)

Dyslipidaemia n (%)

74 (26.4)

535 (46.0)

333 (40.1)

276 (45.1)

259 (47.1)

241 (46.9)

35 (35.7)

Diabetes mellitus n (%)

51 (18.2)

304 (26.2)

188 (22.7)

167 (27.3)

137 (24.9)

140 (27.2)

27 (27.6)

Coronary heart disease n (%)

30 (10.7)

272 (23.4)

144 (17.3)

158 (25.8)

114 (20.7)

135 (26.3)

23 (23.5)

Valvular heart disease n (%)

33 (11.8)

229 (19.7)

131 (15.8)

131 (21.4)

98 (17.8)

110 (21.4)

21 (21.4)

CrCl mean (SD)

104.5 (37.1)

67.0 (24.4)

86.2 (31.6)

57.3 (19.7)

77.8 (24.5)

59.7 (19.2)

44.7 (17.9)

CrCL ≤ 50 mL/min n (%)

1 (0.4)

179 (15.4)

25 (3.0)

155 (25.3)

24 (4.4)

107 (20.8)

48 (49.0)

CHA2DS2-VASc score mean (SD)

1.5 (1.1)

3.5 (1.4)

2.4 (1.3)

4.2 (1.3)

2.8 (1.2)

4.2 (1.3)

4.4 (1.2)

HAS-BLED score mean (SD)

0.9 (0.9)

2.0 (1.0)

1.6 (1.0)

2.1 (1.0)

1.9 (0.9)

2.1 (1.0)

2.1 (1.0)

EHRA bleeding risk-minor n (%)

36 (12.9)

263 (22.6)

147 (17.7)

152 (24.8)

111 (20.2)

124 (24.1)

28 (28.6)

EHRA bleeding risk-low n (%)

174 (62.1)

580 (49.9)

457 (55.1)

297 (48.5)

283 (51.5)

252 (49.0)

45 (45.9)

EHRA bleeding risk-high n (%)

62 (22.1)

289 (24.9)

199 (24.0)

152 (24.8)

137 (24.9)

129 (25.1)

23 (23.5)

EHRA risk unknown n (%)

8 (2.9)

30 (2.6)

27 (3.3)

11 (1.8)

19 (3.5)

9 (1.7)

2 (2.0)

30 mg daily edoxaban dose n (%)

25 (8.9)

341 (29.3)

126 (15.2)

240 (39.2)

101 (18.4)

173 (33.7)

67 (68.4)

Heparin “bridging”

n (%)

134 (9.3)

113 (9.7)

71 (8.6)

(10.3)

50 (9.1)

51 (9.9)

12 (12.2)

  1. All data presented as mean ± SD; number (%); or number, mean ± SD
  2. See text for definition of HAS-BLED and CHA2DS2-VASc scores
  3. EHRA European Heart Rhythm Association, BMI body mass index