International comparison of mortality rates in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary events: Table 1

ecently, authors of several studies on acute coronary syndromes have reported that study participants from eastern Europe and South America had poorer outcomes compared to their North American and western European counterparts.[1][2][3] Taking into consideration that all of these studies have in common a very small proportion of participants from regions outside the USA, Canada, or western Europe, this inference may have been based on insufficient data.We sought to compare the inter-regional mortality in the only study that included a comparable proportion of patients from different continents.. . . . . .