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The aim of the present cohort study was to assess time trends in prescription of anticoagulation therapy in a nationwide registry-based cohort of patients with acute MI and AF.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>All patients, registered in the Norwegian Myocardial Infarction Registry (NORMI) between 2013 and 2019 with ECG-verified AF at hospitalisation, were included in the cohort study. The primary outcome was the prescription rate of anticoagulation therapy at hospital discharge and follow-up through 2019.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>AF was observed in 8565 (10.9% of 78369) patients registered in the NORMI from 2013 through 2019. The congestive heart failure, hypertension, age \u226575 (doubled), diabetes, stroke (doubled), vascular disease, age 65\u201375, and sex (female) score was \u22652 in 7845 (92%) of the hospitalised patients with AF, and in 7174 (96%) of 7440 patients discharged alive. Only 3704 (47.2%) of these patients were treated with anticoagulation prior to the MI. The prescription rate of anticoagulation therapy at discharge was 55% in 2013, increasing to 78% in 2019 (annual per cent change 6.0 (95% CI 0.7 to 11.6)). Patients prescribed anticoagulation therapy had reduced risk of all types of stroke or death at follow-up compared with patients without prescription of anticoagulation therapy (multivariate-adjusted HR 0.8, 95%\u2009CI 0.7 to 0.8, p&lt;0.001).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The prescription rate of anticoagulation therapy in patients with MI and AF increased during the study period, but many patients were still undertreated with respect to stroke prevention.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/openhrt-2021-001934","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,13]],"date-time":"2022-05-13T06:45:26Z","timestamp":1652424326000},"page":"e001934","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Time trends in adherence to guideline recommendations for anticoagulation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0524-9852","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jarle","family":"Jortveit","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Sorlandet Sykehus HF Arendal, Arendal, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1603-3558","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Edvard L","family":"Sandberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Sorlandet Sykehus HF Arendal, Arendal, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1678-7309","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Are Hugo","family":"Pripp","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Oslo Centre of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7561-7644","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sigrun","family":"Halvorsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/CIR.0000000000000659"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.k1453"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehs469"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehaa612"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehl015"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amjmed.2013.12.022"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1373","DOI":"10.1177\/2047487319841940","article-title":"Poor adherence to guideline recommendations among patients with atrial fibrillation and acute myocardial infarction","volume":"26","author":"Jortveit","year":"2019","journal-title":"Eur J Prev Cardiol"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehs184"},{"key":"2025081710423825000_9.1.e001934.9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Thygesen K , Alpert JS , Jaffe AS . 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