Clinical Study
The Challenge of Triaging Chest Pain Patients: The Bernese University Hospital Experience
Table 3
Logistic regression models for each variable separately on ACS.
| Variables | Odds ratio | 95% CI | value |
| Age | 2 | 1.29–3.09 | 0.002 | Gender (female : male) | 0.4 | 0.20–0.80 | 0.0094 | Coronary heart disease | 2.82 | 1.50–5.31 | 0.0013 | Other heart disease | 0.29 | 0.10–0.83 | 0.021 | Other cardiovascular disease | 1.54 | 0.65–3.62 | 0.328 | History of thromboembolic disease | 0.87 | 0.24–3.11 | 0.828 | Chronic lung disease | 0.63 | 0.23–1.70 | 0.36 | Diabetes mellitus | 1.51 | 0.57–4.01 | 0.404 | Arterial hypertension | 0.68 | 0.34–1.37 | 0.281 | Cigarette smoker | 0.76 | 0.32–1.79 | 0.522 | History of cigarette smoking | 0.86 | 0.36–2.04 | 0.728 | Dyslipidemia | 1.24 | 0.44–3.49 | 0.688 | Familial history of coronary heart disease | 0.73 | 0.27–1.98 | 0.537 | Cancer | 0.24 | 0.03–1.87 | 0.175 | Referred with chest pain | 0.68 | 0.37–1.24 | 0.212 | Referred with dyspnoea | 0.27 | 0.10–0.70 | 0.0069 | Referred with suspected ACS | 10.8 | 4.86–23.9 | <0.001 | Symptoms lasting <1 hour | 0.87 | 0.10–7.62 | 0.902 | Symptoms lasting 1–6 hours | 0.67 | 0.29–1.58 | 0.362 | Symptoms lasting >6 hours | 2.03 | 0.96–4.29 | 0.063 | Symptom lasting one day or more | 0.26 | 0.11–0.60 | 0.0015 | Symptom chest pain | 3.46 | 1.32–9.05 | 0.012 | Oppressive retrosternal chest pain radiating to arms or neck | 37.6 | 16.0–88.2 | <0.001 | Nonradiating oppressive retrosternal chest pain | 1.29 | 0.61–2.71 | 0.5 | Burning chest pain | 0.62 | 0.075–5.13 | 0.656 | Respiration-dependent chest pain | 0.13 | 0.03–0.57 | 0.0064 | Stabbing chest pain | 0.29 | 0.10–0.85 | 0.023 | Nonspecific chest pain | 0.11 | 0.032–0.35 | 0.0002 | Symptom dyspnoea | 0.91 | 0.46–1.81 | 0.792 | Cough | 0.16 | 0.05–0.53 | 0.0027 | Heartburn | 0.72 | 0.16–3.31 | 0.672 |
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