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Long-term risk factors from non-invasive evaluation of patients with acute chest pain, but without myocardial infarction.

The aims were to identify long-term risk factors for cardiac events, i.e. cardiac death and non-fatal acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and for development of angina pectoris among patients admitted with acute chest pain, but without confirmed AMI (non-AMI). A total of 257 consecutive non-AMI patients without other severe disease and below 76 years of age were included. Medical history and variables from the ECG while exercising, thallium scintigrams, Holter-monitoring, echocardiography and chest X-ray were recorded. The patients were followed for 7 years regarding cardiac death, non-fatal AMI and development of angina pectoris. The variables recorded at admission were compared to follow-up results by means of Uni- and multivariate analyses. During follow-up, 69 cardiac events, 44 cardiac deaths and 25 non-fatal AMIs occurred. The following variables provided independent prognostic information (relative risk factors with 95% confidence limits in brackets): age (1.05, 1.01-1.09), abnormal ECG at rest (2.81, 1.33-5.90), low increase in rate pressure product (4.57, 2.21-9.44), multiform premature ventricular beats (VPB) (2.61, 1.34-5.09) and transient thallium defects (2.64, 1.33-5.24). Sub-analysis of patients with and without a history of coronary artery disease (CAD) prior to admission identified the following risk factors: (1) Patients with previous CAD: abnormal ECG on admission, low increase in rate pressure product, ST depression during exercise. (2) Patients without previous CAD: abnormal ECG at rest, multiform VPBs and low increase in rate pressure product. Development of angina pectoris during follow-up of patients without previous CAD could not be predicted by any of the variables.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)[1]

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  1. Long-term risk factors from non-invasive evaluation of patients with acute chest pain, but without myocardial infarction. Launbjerg, J., Fruergaard, P., Jacobsen, H.L., Madsen, J.K. Eur. Heart J. (1995) [Pubmed]
 
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