Comparison of Approaches for Stroke Prophylaxis in Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation: Network Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

• Navkaranbir S. Bajaj ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, Pankaj Arora

  * E-mail: nbajaj@uabmc.edu (NSB); parora@uabmc.edu (PA)

  Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Rajat Kalra,

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8982-0595

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• Nirav Patel,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Taimoor Hashim,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Hemant Godara,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Sameer Ather,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Garima Arora,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Tilak Pasala,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

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• Thomas T. Whitfield,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• David C. McGiffin,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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• Mustafa I. Ahmed,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Baptist Princeton, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Steven G. Lloyd,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Nita A. Limdi,

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Pankaj Arora

  Contributed equally to this work with: Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, Pankaj Arora

  * E-mail: nbajaj@uabmc.edu (NSB); parora@uabmc.edu (PA)

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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