Don't Be Afraid; Very Old Patients Treated With Vitamin K Antagonists, If Adequately Managed, Benefit From Anticoagulation

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Results of the EPICA Study (Elderly Patients followed by Italian Centres for Anticoagulation Study), were presented at the ESC Congress 2011. This is the largest study on very old patients anticoagulated with Vitamin K antagonists for the prevention of venous thromboembolism and, for the major part (75%), for the prevention of stroke because affected by atrial fibrillation.

Anabolic substances prevent blood from clotting too readily and they have other benefits.

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