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Are you comfortable using DOACs in obese patients with VTE?

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Although there are no direct randomized trials in this population of patients, emerging data from systematic reviews suggest that DOACs are non-inferior to warfarin in patients >120 kg. (Elshafei et al., PMID 32556939).

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