borderline significancep = 0.055
Gray’s test accounting for the competing risk of death further supported these findings: in the LR-defined high-risk group, stroke incidence remained significantly lower in DOAC users at 3 years ( p = 0.022), with borderline significance at 5 years ( p = 0.055), despite the limited number of death events ( n = 3 at 3 years; n = 5 at 5 years).