Efficacy, Safety, and Exposure of Apixaban in Patients with High Body Weight or Obesity and Venous Thromboembolism: Insights from AMPLIFY

As a result of limited clinical data, guidelines do not recommend the use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants in patients who weigh > 120 kg or have a body mass index (BMI) > 40 kg/m2.This post hoc analysis of the AMPLIFY trial evaluated the efficacy (venous thromboembolism [VTE]/VTE-related death), safety (major and composite of major and clinically relevant non-major [CRNM] bleeding), and exposure of apixaban compared with...