Mellanie True Hills: Home Anticoagulation Monitoring Is An Effective Alternative to Coumadin Clinics

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In a study funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA hospital patients on warfarin for atrial fibrillation or mechanical heart valves were tracked and home anticoagulation monitoring was found to be every bit as effective as INR (International Normalized Ratio) testing in the hospital clinic.

Patients were followed for an average of three years. In that time, 7.9% of home monitoring patients had experienced a stroke, a major bleed, or death as compared to 8.9% of those tested in the clinic.

Thus, home monitoring can be considered to be an effective alternative for those who are disabled or must travel long distances to reach a clinic and are deemed able to perform home testing.

Read: Home monitoring is as safe as clinic testing for patients on blood thinner, but not superior

Earlier this year, Medicare announced coverage for home testing, which opened the door for widespread coverage by insurance companies.

BIO:
Mellanie True Hills is a heart disease survivor, heart health expert, internationally-known author, and non-profit CEO.

Newsweek said, "a near-death experience prompted Mellanie to make a career of telling others what they need to know about heart disease." Following a brush with death in emergency heart surgery, and a near-stroke from a frightening irregular heartbeat later that same year, Mellanie True Hills pledged to use her second chance to help others avoid the #1 and #3 killers, heart disease and stroke.

As CEO of the American Foundation for Women's Health, her mission is to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke with her inspirational and motivational keynotes for American Heart Association Go Red for Women events, hospital women's health events, and corporate and association events. She provides a message of hope and encouragement, sharing how to take control, decrease stress, and protect against heart disease. Audiences consistently say, "You saved my life."

After being cured of her life-threatening irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation, she launched www.StopAfib.org , a non-profit web site "for patients, by patients", which provides information and resources to those suffering with atrial fibrillation.

Author of the award-winning book, A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health and Longevity, she has been featured by hundreds of media around the globe, including CNBC Asia, Reuters , Newsweek, Better Homes and Gardens, Heart-Healthy Living, FoxBusinesss.com, MSNBC.com, PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS.

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