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Figure 1 Proportion of Patients Receiving Clopidogrel in Different Geographic Regions

Regions are based on the United Nations Statistics Geographic Region Codes. North America and Western and Northern Europe includes Austria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the U.S. Eastern and Southern Europe includes Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, and Ukraine. Latin America includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay. Middle East and Africa includes Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, South Africa, and Turkey. Asia and Australasia includes Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand. p < 0.001 for global chi-square as well as for all pairwise comparisons except for the rates in Latin America versus the Middle East and Africa.