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ReviewBiomedicines2025

Non-Anticoagulation Strategies Aimed at Primary Stroke Prevention in Nascent Atrial Fibrillation.

Luca Sgarra, Vanessa Desantis, Andrea Matteucci, Vincenzo Paolo Caccavo, Federica Troisi, Antonio Di Monaco, Francesco Mangini, Grigorios Katsouras, Andrea Igoren Guaricci, Michele Luca Dadamo and 5 more

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Review in Biomedicines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Utility and Wearability of the hitoeNeurology international · 2026
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  2. Additional Stroke Risk Factors Beyond the CHAJournal of clinical medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Luca SgarraCardiology Unit, Medicine Department, General Hospital "F. Miulli" Acquaviva delle Fonti, 70021 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8475-8270
Vanessa DesantisPharmacology Section, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari Aldo Moro Medical School, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1942-2601
Andrea MatteucciClinical and Rehabilitation Cardiology Unit, Emergency Department, San Filippo Neri Hospital, ASL Rome 1, 00135 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8831-6178
Vincenzo Paolo CaccavoCardiology Unit, Medicine Department, General Hospital "F. Miulli" Acquaviva delle Fonti, 70021 Bari, Italy.
Federica TroisiCardiology Unit, Medicine Department, General Hospital "F. Miulli" Acquaviva delle Fonti, 70021 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4133-2664
Antonio Di MonacoCardiology Unit, Medicine Department, General Hospital "F. Miulli" Acquaviva delle Fonti, 70021 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1297-2056
Francesco ManginiCardiology Unit, Medicine Department, General Hospital "F. Miulli" Acquaviva delle Fonti, 70021 Bari, Italy.
Grigorios KatsourasCardiology Unit, Medicine Department, General Hospital "F. Miulli" Acquaviva delle Fonti, 70021 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0324-5623
Andrea Igoren GuaricciCardiology Unit, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari Aldo Moro Medical School, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Michele Luca DadamoCardiology Unit, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari Aldo Moro Medical School, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0009-0008-6002-7375
Fabrizio FortunatoDepartment of Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Carmela NacciPharmacology Section, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari Aldo Moro Medical School, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Maria Assunta PotenzaPharmacology Section, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari Aldo Moro Medical School, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9995-1468
Monica MontagnaniPharmacology Section, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University of Bari Aldo Moro Medical School, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5697-8185
Massimo GrimaldiCardiology Unit, Medicine Department, General Hospital "F. Miulli" Acquaviva delle Fonti, 70021 Bari, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At its earliest appearance, atrial fibrillation (AF) is often unnoticed, asymptomatic, and/or merely device-detected. Widespread use of heart-rate monitoring technologies has facilitated such "nascent atrial fibrillation (nAF)" recognition. Consequently, clinicians face a growing number of patients affected by new-onset AF in the absence of a definite indication for anticoagulation due to several counterarguments: (1) a CHA

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PMCPMC11939867

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