Deprivation and ethnicity linked with lower anticoagulation prescribing for atrial fibrillation, study reveals
Researchers found that, compared with white people, black people were 22% less likely to be prescribed an oral anticoagulant and those from other ethnic minorities were 24% less likely.
Those living in the most deprived areas were 15% less likely to receive oral anticoagulation compared with those in the least deprived areas
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An analysis of ten years of UK prescribing data for atrial fibrillation has uncovered racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the use of oral anticoagulants.
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