Annals of Saudi medicine
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Jan 2018
Gender differences in mortality among ST elevation myocardial infarction patients in Malaysia from 2006 to 2013.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the leading causes of death in Malaysia. However, the prevalence of CAD in males is higher than in females and mortality rates are also different between the two genders. This suggest that risk factors associated with mortality between males and females are different, so we compared the clinical characteristics and outcome between male and female STEMI patients. ⋯ Retrospective registry data with inter-hospital variation.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Jan 2018
Nonmelanoma skin cancer in Saudi Arabia: single center experience.
Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide; one in every three diagnosed malignancies is a skin cancer. However, skin cancer is rarely reported in Saudi Arabia so we conducted this study to highlight these underreported neoplasms. ⋯ Retrospective in a single tertiary care setting.