Recurrent VTE, bleeding complications and other adverse events and related costs within a hypothetical patient population of 10,000 subjects receiving dabigatran and VKA over a lifetime horizon.

VKA, vitamin K antagonists; VTE, venous thromboembolism; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; PE, pulmonary embolism; r, recurrent; LMWH, low molecular weight heparin; CRNMB = clinically relevant non-major bleed event; ICH = intracranial haemorrhage; MB = major bleed; MI = myocardial infarction; CTEPH = chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; PTS = post thrombotic syndrome; UA, unstable angina; INR, international normalised ratio.