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Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and coronary artery events between immigrant patients from south-east asia and south italian patients with …

2020

Aims: The aim of this study is trying to better define determinants of the greatest risk of coronary events in Asian patients compared with south Italian group. In every patient we evaluate the incidence of risk factors, the extent of coronary artery disease and the incidence of major cardiovascular adverse events (MACE) after followup (average of 36 months). Methods and Results: In this study, 56 patients with Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) from south-east Asia were recruited, originating mainly from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, hospitalized between 2013 and 2018. In the study, we compared the characteristics of the Asian population with a control group made up of 56 Sicilian patients w…