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Association of intracranial hemorrhage risk with non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant use vs aspirin use: A systematic review and meta-analysis

JAMA Dec 14, 2018

Huang WY, et al. - Researchers carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials to compare all intracranial hemorrhage indications with individual non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) vs aspirin. They observed that a 15-mg to 20-mg once daily dose of rivaroxaban was correlated with substantially increased risks of intracranial hemorrhage than aspirin. On the other hand, a 10 mg of rivaroxaban once daily, 5 mg of rivaroxaban twice daily, or 5 mg of apixaban twice daily were not related to increased risks. For administration of 15 to 20 mg of rivaroxaban once daily, only patients with atrial fibrillation should be considered.

Methods
  • For this investigation, PubMed, Embase, CENTRAL, and ClinicalTrials.gov from inception to May 28, 2018 were searched, with the terms novel oral anticoagulants, non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants, direct oral anticoagulants, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, edoxaban, warfarin, Coumadin, vitamin K antagonist, aspirin, acetylsalicylic acid, or ASA, and major bleeding, fatal bleeding, or intracranial hemorrhage.
  • Search was restricted to clinical trials on humans.
  • No language restrictions in this analysis.
  • Study selection included randomized clinical trials of 3 months or longer, involving a comparison of the outcomes of the use of NOAC compared with use of aspirin.
  • From eligible studies, 2 investigators independently abstracted data.
  • Based on the Mantel-Haenszel method, they computed a fixed-effect estimate
  • Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% CI have been used to measure the association of individual NOAC vs aspirin with intracranial hemorrhage risk.
  • During data collection, the hypothesis that intracranial hemorrhage risk would be higher with NOACs than aspirin was formulated.

Results
  • The principal analysis included 5 randomized clinical trials that compared 1 or more NOACs with aspirin and enrolled 39,398 people.
  • Pooling the outcomes from the fixed-effects model demonstrated that a dose of 15 to 20 mg of rivaroxaban once daily was correlated with an increased risk of intracranial hemorrhage (2 trials; OR, 3.31 [95% CI, 1.42 to 7.72]) vs aspirin.
  • On the other hand, a 10-mg dose of rivaroxaban once daily or a 5-mg dose twice daily (3 trials; OR, 1.43 [95% CI, 0.93 to 2.21]) and a 5-mg dose of apixaban twice daily (1 trial; OR, 0.84 [95% CI, 0.38 to 1.88]) were not.
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