Predictive Value of the HAS-BLED and ATRIA Bleeding Scores for the Risk of Serious Bleeding in a “Real-World” Population With Atrial Fibrillation Receiving Anticoagulant Therapy

Despite the clear net clinical benefit of oral anticoagulation for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the occurrence of major bleeding events may be devastating. The HAS-BLED (hypertension, abnormal renal/liver function, stroke, bleeding history or predisposition, labile international normalized ratio, elderly, drugs/alcohol concomitantly) bleeding risk score was first described in 2010 and is recommended in European...