{"id":11797,"date":"2022-09-07T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/per-i-professionisti\/pillole-di-scienza\/therapy-with-new-oral-anticoagulantdrugs-is-effective-in-treating-atrial-fibrillation-in-elderly-patients\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:19:15","slug":"therapy-with-new-oral-anticoagulantdrugs-is-effective-in-treating-atrial-fibrillation-in-elderly-patients","status":"publish","type":"pillole-di-scienza","link":"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/en\/health-professionals\/science-pills\/therapy-with-new-oral-anticoagulantdrugs-is-effective-in-treating-atrial-fibrillation-in-elderly-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapy with new oral anticoagulant drugs is effective in treating atrial fibrillation in elderly patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Malik AH, Yandrapalli S, ET AL. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30982541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta-Analysis of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants Compared with Warfarin in Patients &gt;75 Years of Age<\/a>. Am J Cardiol. 2019;123(12):2051-2057. doi:10.1016\/j.amjcard.2019.02.060<\/p>\n<h3><strong>At a glance<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A study published in the <em>American Journal of Cardiology<\/em> showed that in elderly people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/en\/health-professionals\/science-pills\/atrial-fibrillation-anticoagulant-therapy-in-older-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>atrial fibrillation<\/strong><\/a>, therapy with the <strong>new oral anticoagulant drugs<\/strong> (DOACs or NOACs) has superior efficacy in reducing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/en\/health-professionals\/science-pills\/association-between-physical-activity-and-mortality-among-community-dwelling-stroke-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stroke<\/a> (as well as systemic embolization in general) when compared with <strong>standard warfarin-based anticoagulant therapy (VKA)<\/strong>. Moreover, in addition to being effective, <strong>DOACs<\/strong> also have a good safety profile. Compared with <strong>VKA<\/strong>, DOACs have a similar rate of major bleeding but a significantly lower rate of intracranial hemorrhage \u2013 the most feared complication.<\/p>\n<h3><b>What is already known<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Atrial fibrillation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (AF) is a frequent condition in the elderly population. In fact, it is the most common <\/span><b>arrhythmia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (i.e., presence of irregular heart rhythm) in these individuals: <\/span><b>as many as 10% of people over 75 years of age are affected<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AF is conventionally divided into valvular or nonvalvular. There is no satisfactory or uniform definition for these two terms. The term <\/span><b>valvular AF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is related to rheumatic valvular disease (predominantly mitral stenosis) or the presence of mechanical heart valve prostheses; all other cases will fall into the much more common condition of <\/span><b>nonvalvular AF (NVAF)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All types of<\/span><b> AF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are associated with an approximately five times greater <\/span><b>risk of stroke<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in patients who have it when compared to those who do not. For this reason, it is essential to adopt proper thrombo-embolic <\/span><b>risk prevention strategies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the cornerstone of which is <\/span><b>oral anticoagulant therapy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until the discovery of DOACs a few years ago, the only drugs available for the anticoagulant treatment of patients with AF were the <\/span><b>vitamin K antagonist drugs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (so-called VKAs, of which warfarin is the earliest example). These VKAs, despite limitations related to pharmacokinetics, bioavailability, and therapeutic range maintenance, have been the drugs of choice;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, the range of possible <\/span><b>therapeutic strategies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been greatly strengthened by the addition of <\/span><b>DOACs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. DOACs have entirely different mechanisms of action from <\/span><b>VKAs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and have demonstrated good efficacy and safety, at least for the condition of <\/span><b>NVAF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Until now, however, it had not been possible to extrapolate the results of randomized clinical trials to all real-world patients, and specifically to the subgroup of elderly patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Design and Methods<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><b>meta-analysis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> included <\/span><b>five randomized controlled trials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that aimed to compare <\/span><b>DOAC-based therapies <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(4 drugs evaluated: apixaban, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, edoxaban)<\/span><b> or warfarin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>prevention of thromboembolic disease from NVAF. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The analysis focused only on elderly patients (in this case defined as being over 75 years old) and involved 28,000 recruited subjects. Results were analyzed with respect to each of the <\/span><b>two types of treatment regimens<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, both in terms of <\/span><b>efficacy <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(defined by the reduction of stroke and systemic embolism) and<\/span><b> safety <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(defined by the prevalence of major bleeding events and\/or cerebral hemorrhages).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Main Findings<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>DOAC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> treatment of these subjects recruited with <\/span><b>NVAF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was associated with a <\/span><b>better benefit\/risk ratio<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than those treated with <\/span><b>warfarin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in particular:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>DOACs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a group have higher efficacy than <\/span><b>warfarin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in reducing <\/span><b>stroke <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or <\/span><b>systemic embolization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (hazard ratio HR 0.76, 95% confidence interval 0.67-0.86, p&lt; 0.01);<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The overall rate of major bleedings was similar between DOACs and<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> VKAs, but there were far fewer <\/span><b>intracranial hemorrhages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in patients randomized to a DOAC (HR 0.48, 95% confidence interval 0.34-0.67, p&lt; 0.01) with the only exception of rivaroxaban;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Apixaban was the only DOAC to significantly reduce all the three major adverse events tested in the study compared with warfarin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (i.e., systemic embolization, major bleeding, and intracranial hemorrhage), respectively by 29%, 36% and 66%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In summary, <\/span><b>DOACs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were found to be safer and <\/span><b>more effective than traditional warfarin therapy<\/b> <b>for the treatment of NVAF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the older patient subgroup. Although this is a class effect, amongst DOACs apixaban is the drug that appears to provide the best combination of efficacy and safety in this population.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Limitations<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main limitation of this study is the <\/span><b>absence of trials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with head-to-head comparisons between the different <\/span><b>DOACs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. All comparisons between the DOACs can therefore only be indirect. However, it should be be kept in mind that it is extremely unlikely that direct comparisons will be made in the near future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other possible limitations that require caution when comparing the different studies include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fact that one of the trials included in the meta-analysis used an open-label design (i.e., in which information is not hidden to study participants), unlike the other 4 studies;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the fact that dabigatran has a slightly different mechanism of action than the other tested DOACs;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the lack of important details on demographics and comorbidities in some studies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>What\u2019s New<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most interesting aspect of this research is that it confirms, for the first time, the <\/span><b>notable efficacy and safety profile of DOACs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, even in subgroups of <\/span><b>patients with<\/b> <b>extremely fragile AF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as older individuals. Specifically, <\/span><b>DOACs have been shown not to be inferior to warfarin<\/b> <b>in the prevention of stroke\/systemic embolism, with a clearly better safety profile on intracranial hemorrhage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (the most feared complication of anticoagulation).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practical terms, this new information on the use of <\/span><b>DOACs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>elderly patients<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also suggests the possibility of future therapeutic improvements. Until now, despite its well-established efficacy in stroke prevention, <\/span><b>standard warfarin therapy has always been substantially underutilized in this age group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, mainly because of a perceived increased risk of bleeding. <\/span><b>Increasing age also complicates this <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">issue, with additional difficulties related to poor adherence, cognitive impairment, risk of falls, drug interactions, and polypharmacy. In this sense, although still not risk-free, <\/span><b>DOACs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> appear very promising. They can be administered by mouth, are characterized by rapid onset and cessation of effects, reveal a low presence of dietary and drug interactions, and lack the need for routine monitoring.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What are the prospects<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding research possibilities, the<\/span><b> results obtained from this study suggest the need for future ad-hoc confirmatory studies that are dedicated only to older AF patients from the start. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this <\/span><b>meta-analysis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is based exclusively on <\/span><b>randomized controlled clinical trials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is still a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">post hoc<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> subgroup analysis, and therefore the results obtained so far should be considered a &#8220;hypothesis-generating&#8221; study;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As mentioned earlier, it would also be desirable for studies dedicated to <\/span><b>direct comparisons of the various DOACs in those elderly patients with AF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> be started soon. Although currently supported by online indirect evidence and requiring confirmation, the finding that <\/span><b>apixaban<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is likely to be more cost-effective than the other commercially available DOACs seems important. Finally, <\/span><b>DOACs indeed remain more expensive than warfarin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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