Background Despite oral anticoagulation being highly effective in reducing stroke and thromboembolism, patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) still have a significant residual excess in mortality risk. Additional management strategies are needed to reduce the mortality risk seen in AF patients. Methods Ancillary analysis from the EURObservational Research Programme Atrial Fibrillation (EORP-AF) General Pilot Registry, to evaluate 1-year outcomes in AF patients according to statin use at baseline. Results Of 2636 patients, 1286 (48.8%) patients used statins at baseline. Patients prescribed statins had more comorbidities. At 1-year follow-up, logistic regression analysis adjusted for AF type, symptomatic status and CHA2DS2-VASc score demonstrated that statin use was inversely associated with CV death (odds ratio [OR]: 0.50, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.30–0.82, p < 0.0001), all-cause death (OR: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.37–0.73, p < 0.0001) and the composite outcome of CV death/any thromboembolic event/bleeding (OR: 0.71, 95% CI: 0.52–0.98, p < 0.0001). Similar findings were observed for ‘high risk’ subgroups including the elderly, primary prevention and high thromboembolic risk AF patients. Survival analysis showed that statins prescribed patients had a lower risk of all-cause death at follow-up (p = 0.0433). Multivariate Cox regression analysis found that statin use remained independently associated with a lower risk for all-cause death (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.42–0.88, p = 0.0077). Conclusions Statin use in AF patients was associated with improved outcomes, with an independent association with a lower risk of all-cause death at 1-year follow-up.

Use of statins and adverse outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation: An analysis from the EURObservational Research Programme Atrial Fibrillation (EORP-AF) general registry pilot phase / Proietti, Marco; Laroche, Cécile; Nyvad, Ole; Haberka, Maciej; Vassilikos, Vassilios P.; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Boriani, Giuseppe; Lip, Gregory Y. H.. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. - ISSN 0167-5273. - 248:(2017), pp. 166-172. [10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.08.055]

Use of statins and adverse outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation: An analysis from the EURObservational Research Programme Atrial Fibrillation (EORP-AF) general registry pilot phase

Boriani, Giuseppe;
2017

Abstract

Background Despite oral anticoagulation being highly effective in reducing stroke and thromboembolism, patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) still have a significant residual excess in mortality risk. Additional management strategies are needed to reduce the mortality risk seen in AF patients. Methods Ancillary analysis from the EURObservational Research Programme Atrial Fibrillation (EORP-AF) General Pilot Registry, to evaluate 1-year outcomes in AF patients according to statin use at baseline. Results Of 2636 patients, 1286 (48.8%) patients used statins at baseline. Patients prescribed statins had more comorbidities. At 1-year follow-up, logistic regression analysis adjusted for AF type, symptomatic status and CHA2DS2-VASc score demonstrated that statin use was inversely associated with CV death (odds ratio [OR]: 0.50, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.30–0.82, p < 0.0001), all-cause death (OR: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.37–0.73, p < 0.0001) and the composite outcome of CV death/any thromboembolic event/bleeding (OR: 0.71, 95% CI: 0.52–0.98, p < 0.0001). Similar findings were observed for ‘high risk’ subgroups including the elderly, primary prevention and high thromboembolic risk AF patients. Survival analysis showed that statins prescribed patients had a lower risk of all-cause death at follow-up (p = 0.0433). Multivariate Cox regression analysis found that statin use remained independently associated with a lower risk for all-cause death (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.42–0.88, p = 0.0077). Conclusions Statin use in AF patients was associated with improved outcomes, with an independent association with a lower risk of all-cause death at 1-year follow-up.
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Use of statins and adverse outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation: An analysis from the EURObservational Research Programme Atrial Fibrillation (EORP-AF) general registry pilot phase / Proietti, Marco; Laroche, Cécile; Nyvad, Ole; Haberka, Maciej; Vassilikos, Vassilios P.; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Boriani, Giuseppe; Lip, Gregory Y. H.. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. - ISSN 0167-5273. - 248:(2017), pp. 166-172. [10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.08.055]
Proietti, Marco; Laroche, Cécile; Nyvad, Ole; Haberka, Maciej; Vassilikos, Vassilios P.; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Boriani, Giuseppe; Lip, Gregory Y. H.
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