August 20, 2009Acta Cardiologica

Management and outcomes of Middle Eastern patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes in the Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE)

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Population

8176 consecutive patients with the final diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome, mean age 56 years, 40% with…

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

in-hospital

Authors

MZMohammad ZubaidTufts Medical Center WRWafa RashedRabin Medical Center WAWael AlmahmeedPreventive Cardiology

Discussion

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Implication

Suggests gaps in risk-stratified angiography for ACS; leaves open whether targeted use improves outcomes in Middle Eastern cohorts.

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Population

8176 consecutive patients with the final diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), mean age 56 years, 40% with diabetes, 38% current smokers, from 64 hospitals in 6 countries in the Gulf region of the Middle East.

Outcome

Characteristics, management practices (reperfusion, medications, angiography), and hospital outcomes including mortalityhard clinical

ACS patients in the Middle East present at a younger age with high rates of diabetes and smoking, and while medication adherence is good, there is underutilization of interventional procedures, particularly in high-risk patients.

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Zubaid et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fb1c3e714c9259a2df782f https://doi.org/10.2143/ac.64.4.2041607

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