The Pandemic of Coronary Heart Disease in the Middle East and North Africa: What Clinicians Need to Know

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  Fig. 1. The Pandemic of CHD in the MENA: epidemiology and challenges. Abbreviations: CHD coronary heart disease, EMS emergency medical services, MENA Middle East and North Africa, pPCI primary percutaneous coronary intervention, SGLT2i sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors

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  Fig. 2. Estimates on the age-standardized rates of coronary heart disease incidence (A), prevalence (B), deaths (C), and disability-adjusted life years (D) in the MENA region in 2019. (Source: The Global Burden of Disease Compare Tool, with permission from: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [7])

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  Fig. 3. Risk factors with the highest attributable CHD age-standardized death rates in 2019. (Source: The Global Burden of Disease Compare Tool, with permission from: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [7])

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  Fig. 4. Variations in high systolic blood pressure (A), high LDL cholesterol (B), high fasting plasma glucose (C), and high body mass index (D) attributable CHD age-standardized death rates in the MENA in 2019. (Source: The Global Burden of Disease Compare Tool, with permission from: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [7])