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My Pick of the Most Important Study from the European Society of Cardiology Meeting

Sensible Medicine

Linda Joosten, told the packed auditorium during her presentation that frailty is a complex syndrome that includes multiple domains, such as weight loss, communication difficulties, physical fitness, and polypharmacy, all of which may affect the benefit/harm ratio of DOACs. They had to meet frailty criteria and be stable on a VKA.