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Predictors of warfarin dose requirements in South African patients attending an anticoagulation clinic.
J Vasc Nurs
March 2017
Department of Molecular Medicine and Hematology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, National Health Laboratory Service, Anticoagulation Clinic and University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Introduction: Warfarin is the most common oral anticoagulant for the treatment and prevention of thromboembolic disease. However, it has a wide interpatient variability in dose requirements due to various genetic and clinical factors.
Materials And Methods: This study investigated the effect of clinical and genetic factors on the variability of warfarin dose requirements in 147 South African patients (81 white and 66 black).