Socioeconomic factors and bleeding events in patients with incident atrial fibrillation: A Finnish nationwide cohort study.
Adverse outcomes
Atrial fibrillation
Bleeding risk
Income, educational attainment
Socioeconomic status
Journal
International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature
ISSN: 2352-9067
Titre abrégé: Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 101649525
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
23
08
2022
revised:
18
09
2022
accepted:
04
10
2022
entrez:
17
10
2022
pubmed:
18
10
2022
medline:
18
10
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Low socioeconomic status has been associated with higher risk of ischemic stroke and death in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, whether socioeconomic status affects risk of bleeding events is unknown. We assessed the hypothesis that low income and educational attainment are associated with higher risk of bleeding in patients with AF. The registry-based FinACAF study covers all patients with AF in Finland during 2007-2018. Patients were divided into income quartiles and three categories based on their educational attainment. Outcomes of interest were the first-ever gastrointestinal (GI), intracranial (IC) and any bleeding. We identified 205 019 patients (50.9 % female; mean age 72.3 (SD 13.4) years) with incident AF without prior bleeding. Mean follow-up time was 4.0 (SD 3.2) years, during which 25 013 (12.2 %) patients experienced first-ever any bleeding (incidence rate 3.07 (95 % CI 3.03-3.10) /100 patient-years). Low income was independently associated with hazard of any bleeding as well as GI and IC bleeding (adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) comparing lowest vs highest income quartile: 1.13 (1.08-1.17), 1.32 (1.23-1.41) and 1.15 (1.06-1.24), respectively). Income-related bleeding disparities were larger among younger patients under 65 years and among men. Education-related bleeding disparities were smaller than income related-disparities (adjusted HRs comparing lowest vs highest educational category: any bleeding 1.06 (1.02-1.11), GI bleeding 1.16 (1.08-1.24), IC bleeding 1.10 (0.93-1.09)). Patients with AF and low income are at higher risk of bleeding, especially GI bleeding.
Sections du résumé
Background
UNASSIGNED
Low socioeconomic status has been associated with higher risk of ischemic stroke and death in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, whether socioeconomic status affects risk of bleeding events is unknown. We assessed the hypothesis that low income and educational attainment are associated with higher risk of bleeding in patients with AF.
Methods
UNASSIGNED
The registry-based FinACAF study covers all patients with AF in Finland during 2007-2018. Patients were divided into income quartiles and three categories based on their educational attainment. Outcomes of interest were the first-ever gastrointestinal (GI), intracranial (IC) and any bleeding.
Results
UNASSIGNED
We identified 205 019 patients (50.9 % female; mean age 72.3 (SD 13.4) years) with incident AF without prior bleeding. Mean follow-up time was 4.0 (SD 3.2) years, during which 25 013 (12.2 %) patients experienced first-ever any bleeding (incidence rate 3.07 (95 % CI 3.03-3.10) /100 patient-years). Low income was independently associated with hazard of any bleeding as well as GI and IC bleeding (adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) comparing lowest vs highest income quartile: 1.13 (1.08-1.17), 1.32 (1.23-1.41) and 1.15 (1.06-1.24), respectively). Income-related bleeding disparities were larger among younger patients under 65 years and among men. Education-related bleeding disparities were smaller than income related-disparities (adjusted HRs comparing lowest vs highest educational category: any bleeding 1.06 (1.02-1.11), GI bleeding 1.16 (1.08-1.24), IC bleeding 1.10 (0.93-1.09)).
Conclusions
UNASSIGNED
Patients with AF and low income are at higher risk of bleeding, especially GI bleeding.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36246774
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcha.2022.101131
pii: S2352-9067(22)00180-4
pmc: PMC9556928
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
101131Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Author(s).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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