Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain

Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain

BackgroundSex‐based differences in clinical presentation, pathophysiology, and outcomes of patients with acute chest pain are increasingly being recognized, but are not implemented in guidelines and clinical prediction tools. We evaluated the performance of the HEART score in women versus men, becau...

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Main Authors: Ingrid E. M. Bank, Vince C. de Hoog, Dominique P. V. de Kleijn, Gerard Pasterkamp, Pieter A. Doevendans, Hester M. den Ruijter, Geertje Dalmeijer, Thierry X. Wildbergh, Arend Mosterd, Leo Timmers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-11-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
acute coronary syndrome
decision aids
sex disparities
major adverse cardiac event
risk stratification
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.005373

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