EHRA 2024: Late-Breaking Science Video Collection

Published: 22 April 2024

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For short, concise coverage of the key data revealed, our accessible Expert Interviews were conducted with select faculty, focussing on the results, applicability and impact on future research and clinical practice. 

About the episode

EHRA 24 - We are joined onsite by Dr Julius Nikorowitsch (University Heart and Vascular Centre Hamburg (UHZ), DE) to outline the impact of age, sex, cardiovascular comorbidities, and kidney function on outcomes with oral anticoagulation therapy in patients with device-detected atrial fibrillation in a substudy of the NOAH-AFNET 6 trial (NCT02618577).

The substudy consisted of 2534 patients from the main trial. Of those, 741 patients had a CHA2DS2-VASc score of above 4, who were randomized to edoxaban or placebo. Patients were followed up for 21 months. Findings showed that patients randomized to edoxaban and to placebo had no statistically significant differences, with comparable stroke rates. In terms of safety, those randomized to edoxaban had more bleeding events, and higher rates of all-cause mortality than those who had received placebo.

Interview Questions:

  1. What is the importance of this substudy?
  2. What was the substudy design and patient cohort
  3. What are your key findings?
  4. How do the findings from this substudy shed new light on the NOAH findings revealed at ESC 23?
  5. What further study is needed?
  6. What are your take-home messages?

Recorded onsite at EHRA in Berlin, 2024.

Faculty Biographies

Julius Nikorowitsch

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