A
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis to Determine the Effect of Oral
Anticoagulants on Incidence of Dementia in Patients with Atrial
Fibrillation
Running head: Anticoagulants, dementia, atrial fibrillation
Mingjie Lin, PhD1, Wenqiang Han,
MD2, Jingquan Zhong, PhD, MD2,3, Lin
Wu, BM, MSc, MD1,4,5
- Department of Cardiology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing,
China
- The Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research,
Chinese Ministry of Education, Chinese National Health Commission and
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, The State and Shandong Province
Joint Key Laboratory of Translational Cardiovascular Medicine,
Department of Cardiology, Qilu
Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan,
China
- Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital (Qingdao), Cheeloo College of
Medicine, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- Department of Cardiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular
Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology of Ministry of Education,
Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Southwest Medical University,
Luzhou, China
Corresponding Author: Lin Wu, Corresponding author. Department
of Cardiology, Peking University First Hospital, No. 8 Xishiku Road,
Beijing 100034, China; Phone: +86 13716162368; E-mail:lin_wu@163.com.
Acknowledgements: We sincerely thank Dr. Ali
(Abu
Sad Mohammed Arif Ali, Department of Cardiology, Peking University First
Hospital, Beijing, China) for correcting the English.
This work was supported by the
National Natural Science Foundation of China
(81770325,81930105).
Sponsor
is no role in the design, methods, subject recruitment, data
collections, analysis and preparation of paper.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors have no conflicts
to disclose