Men who live alone have worse anticoagulation control: A Danish registry study

Anders Nissen Bonde; Jenny Bjerre; Marco Proietti; Gregory YH Lip; Gunnar Gislason; Mark A Hlatky

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2022.11.006

Men who live alone have worse anticoagulation control: A Danish registry study

Am Heart J. 2023 Mar:257:30-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2022.11.006. Epub 2022 Nov 9.

Authors

Anders Nissen Bonde¹, Jenny Bjerre², Marco Proietti³, Gregory YH Lip⁴, Gunnar Gislason², Mark A Hlatky⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Gentofte, Denmark. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Gentofte, Denmark.
³ Division of Subacute Care, IRCCS Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, Milan, Italy; Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences at University of Liverpool, John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
⁵ Departments of Health Policy and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.

PMID: 36370885
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2022.11.006

Abstract

Men living alone may have particular difficulty in managing chronic medical conditions. Anticoagulation control, a sensitive indicator of self-management, was significantly worse among men living alone.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anticoagulants* / therapeutic use
Denmark / epidemiology
Humans
Male
Registries

Substances

Anticoagulants