Emad Ahmed, Khalid F Alhabib, Ayman El-Menyar, Nidal Asaad, Kadhim Sulaiman, Ahmad Hersi, Wael Almahmeed, Alawi A Alsheikh-Ali, Haitham Amin, Ahmed Al-Motarreb, Shukri Al Saif, Rajvir Singh, Jawad Al-Lawati, Jassim Al Suwaidi
CONTEXT: Elderly patients have more cardiovascular risk factors and a greater burden of ischemic disease than younger patients. AIMS: To examine the impact of age on clinical presentation and outcomes in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS AND MATERIAL: Collected data from the 2nd Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE-2), which is a prospective multicenter study from six adjacent Arab Middle Eastern Gulf countries...
June 2013: Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research