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Diabetes mellitus (DM) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are known risk factors for ischemic stroke. Recent data, however, suggest that only insulin-treated DM is a risk factor for ischemic stroke among AF patients.

To evaluate the risk of stroke in patients with insulin and noninsulin treated DM.

We included AF patients undergoing coronary angiography in Western Denmark between 2003 and 2016. Patients were categorized as 1) insulin treated DM, 2) noninsulin treated DM, or 3) nonDM patients. The main outcome was ischemic stroke >30days after CAG.

AF patients (n=21,223) were included, of whom 17,181 (81%) did not have DM, 2890 (14%) had noninsulin-treated DM and 1152 (5%) had insulin-treated DM. Median follow-up was 5.3years. Ischemic stroke rates were 0.83 per 100 person-years for nonDM, 1.19 for noninsulin-treated DM and 1.40 for insulin-treated DM. Insulin-treated DM (adjusted hazard ratio (HR
) 1.48, 95% CI 1.15-1.91) and noninsulin-treated DM patients (HR
1.30, 95% CI 1.09-1.54) had higher risks of ischemic stroke than nonDM patients. There was no difference between insulin-treated DM and noninsulin-treated DM (HR
1.09, 95% CI 0.82-1.46). Stratification by coronary artery disease yielded comparable risk estimates.

In patients with AF, DM increases the risk of ischemic stroke, regardless of treatment.
In patients with AF, DM increases the risk of ischemic stroke, regardless of treatment.Oropharyngeal candidiasis is the most common opportunistic fungal infectious disease. Culture methods and microscopy are used to detect the presence of Candida species in clinical specimens. We have previously developed an immunochromatographic test (ICT) to enable the simple and rapid diagnosis of candidiasis. In this study, we evaluated the performance of the ICT for the detection of Candida species from pharyngeal swabs and compared the results with those of the culture method. The isolated Candida species were identified using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism, and viable cell counts were determined using selective chromogenic agar. The detection rate of C. albicans was 63.3% and 0% among ≤102 and ≥ 106 colony-forming units (CFU)/mL of viable Candida cells from pharyngeal swabs, respectively. The detection rate of nonC. albicans Candida species, especially C. glabrata, increased commensurately from 16.7% at ≤102 CFU/mL to 75.0% at ≥106 CFU/mL. Among the 300 pharyngeal swabs analyzed, 59 cultures detected Candida species at a count of >103 CFU/mL (53 were ICT-positive). Of the remaining 241 culture-negative specimens, 219 were ICT-negative. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the ICT were 89.8%, 90.9%, and 90.7%, respectively. Taken together, the ICT evaluated can be made readily available for clinical use in detecting Candida.
The aim of this study was to compare long-term all-cause mortality between direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) and vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

The optimal anticoagulant agent for patients with AF after TAVR has not been clarified.

OCEAN (Optimized Transcatheter Valvular Intervention) is a prospective, multicenter, observational cohort registry comprising 2,588 patients who underwent TAVR between October 2013 and May 2017. Of these, 403 patients (15.6%) with AF on anticoagulant therapy were identified, of whom 227 (56.3%) were prescribed DOACs and 176 (43.7%) were prescribed VKAs. Patients who successfully discharged after TAVR were stratified into DOAC and VKA groups on the basis of the prescription of anticoagulant agents, and the analyses started from discharge.

In total, 33.3% of patients were men. The mean age was 84.4 ± 4.7 years, and the average CHA
DS
-VASc score was 5.1 ± 1.1. The median follow-up duration was 568days. A multivariate Cox regression model and inverse probability of treatment weighting based on the propensity score demonstrated that the DOAC group was significantly associated with a lower incidence of all-cause mortality compared with the VKA group (10.3% vs. 23.3%; Cox-adjusted hazard ratio 0.391; 95% confidence interval 0.204 to 0.749; p=0.005; and 10.2% vs. 20.6%; inverse probability of treatment weighting-adjusted hazard ratio 0.531; 95% confidence interval 0.294 to 0.961; p = 0.036, respectively).

Compared with VKAs, DOACs might be associated with lower long-term all-cause mortality in patients with concomitant AF who are successfully discharged after TAVR. This finding warrants investigation in ongoing prospective randomized trials.
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