{"id":7117,"date":"2025-05-22T14:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:07:34","slug":"recent-studies-and-guidelines-suggest-that-female-sex-alone-may-not-independently-increase-stroke-risk-in-atrial-fibrillation-af-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/recent-studies-and-guidelines-suggest-that-female-sex-alone-may-not-independently-increase-stroke-risk-in-atrial-fibrillation-af-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent studies and guidelines suggest that female sex alone may not independently increase stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Recent studies and guidelines suggest that female sex alone may not independently increase stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As of 2025, the inclusion of female sex in the CHA\u2082DS\u2082-VASc score has been re-evaluated. Consequently, a modified scoring system, CHA\u2082DS\u2082-VA, which excludes the sex category, has been proposed and is gaining acceptance.\u00a0 \ufffc<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key Points:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 CHA\u2082DS\u2082-VASc Score: Traditionally includes female sex as a risk factor, assigning 1 point.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 CHA\u2082DS\u2082-VA Score: A revised version that omits the sex category, focusing on other clinical risk factors. \ufffc<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Clinical Implication: The shift to CHA\u2082DS\u2082-VA aims to prevent overestimation of stroke risk in women and avoid unnecessary anticoagulation therapy.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\ufffc<a href=\"https:\/\/ecgwaves.com\/docs\/chads-va-bleeding-risk-score\/\">https:\/\/ecgwaves.com\/docs\/chads-va-bleeding-risk-score\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent studies and guidelines suggest that female sex alone may not independently increase stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. As of 2025, the inclusion of female sex in the CHA\u2082DS\u2082-VASc score has been re-evaluated. Consequently, a modified scoring system, CHA\u2082DS\u2082-VA, which excludes the sex category, has been proposed and is gaining acceptance.\u00a0 \ufffc Key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}