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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023

Distinct Clinical and Prognostic Features of Myelodysplastic Syndrome in Patients from the Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond: A Systemic Review.

Amal Al-Haidose, Mohamed A Yassin, Muna N Ahmed, Hasna H Kunhipurayil, Asrar A Al-Harbi, Musheer A Aljaberi, Saddam A Abbasi, Shahram Kordasti, Atiyeh M Abdallah

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Amal Al-HaidoseDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar.
Mohamed A YassinMedical Oncology Department-Hematology Section, National Centre for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0002-1144-8076
Muna N AhmedDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar.
Hasna H KunhipurayilDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar.
Asrar A Al-HarbiAl-Rayan Colleges, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah 42541, Saudi Arabia.
Musheer A AljaberiFaculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Taiz University, Taiz 6803, Yemen.
Saddam A AbbasiStatistics Program, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0003-1843-8863
Shahram KordastiSchool of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK.
Atiyeh M AbdallahDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar.ORCID 0000-0003-4812-956X

Funding

Qatar University QUCP-CHS-2022-551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) describes a group of bone marrow malignancies with variable morphologies and heterogeneous clinical features. The aim of this study was to systematically appraise the published clinical, laboratory, and pathologic characteristics and identify distinct clinical features of MDS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We conducted a comprehensive search of the PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases from 2000 to 2021 to identify population-based studies of MDS epidemiology in MENA countries. Of 1935 studies, 13 independent studies published between 2000 and 2021 representing 1306 patients with MDS in the MENA region were included. There was a median of 85 (range 20 to 243) patients per study. Seven studies were performed in Asian MENA countries (732 patients, 56%) and six in North African MENA countries (574 patients, 44%). The pooled mean age was 58.4 years (SD 13.14; 12 studies), and the male-to-female ratio was 1.4. The distribution of WHO MDS subtypes was significantly different between MENA, Western, and Far East populations (

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