Gastrointestinal Bleeding Risk Associated With Pulse Pressure in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Retrospective Cohort Study

Michel Abou Khalil   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Carlo El Khoury   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Yishi Jia   ¹ , MS ;   Maximilian Moersdorf   ¹ , MD ;   Christian Massad   ¹ , MD ;   Alex El Darzi   ¹ , MD ;   Yara Menassa   ¹ , MD ;   Mohammad Montaser Atasi   ¹ , MD ;   Ghassan Bidaoui   ¹ , MD ;   Hadi Younes   ² , MD ;   Ala Assaf   ¹ , MD ;   Mario Mekhael   ¹ , MD ;   Eli Tsakiris   ¹ , MD ;   Chanho Lim   ¹ , MS ;   Charbel Noujaim   ¹ , MD ;   Abboud Hassan   ¹ , BS ;   Yingshuo Liu   ¹ , MS ;   Mary Margot M Maleckar   ¹ , PhD ;   Rodolfo A Montiel Quintero   ¹ , MD ;   Omar Kreidieh   ¹ , MD ;   Amitabh C Pandey   ^{3, 4} , MD ;   Han Feng   ¹ , PhD ;   Qussay Marashly   ¹ , MD ;   Nassir F Marrouche   ¹ , MD

¹ Tulane Research Innovation for Arrhythmia Discovery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States

² Department of Internal Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

³ Department of Cardiology, Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States

⁴ Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, New Orleans, LA, United States

*these authors contributed equally