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Abstract
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are life-threatening disorders that remain a major cause of high morbidity and mortality despite advances in treatment (Boden et al., 2008). About 1.5 million hospital discharges involve patients with ACS in 2005. According to statistics from the American Heart Association (AHA), approximately 18% of men and 23% of women over the age of 40 will die within 1 year of having an initial recognized MI (Rosamond et al., 2008). The economic burden of ACS is also very high, costing Americans more than $150 billion, according to AHA estimates. Approximately 20% of the ACS patients are rehospitalized within 1 year, and nearly 60% of the costs related to ACS result from rehospitalization (Menzin et al., 2008). In Africa and the Middle East, myocardial infarction (MI) presents at a comparably younger age, and the CAD-related mortality is expected to exceed that observed in other regions (Almahmeed et al., 2012). In Egypt, acute MI is a major cause of death among Egyptians (Ragy et al., 2017).