Among older patients, who are at risk of major bleeding, self-monitoring reduced the risk of dying and did not increase the risk of re complications.The study? U public funding of the National Institute UK Health Research Programme of Technology Assessment.
Dr Paul Alexander Kyrle, Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna and co-author of an accompanying editorial Journal said "the effect of self-monitoring is not the same for all groups of patients. " While patients with mechanical heart valves benefit, especially men younger than 55 years, other groups of patients,
air max, including those with atrial fibrillation, not, he said.
