Clinical presentation in EMS patients with acute chest pain in relation to sex, age and medical history: prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess symptom presentation related to age, sex and previous medical history in patients with chest pain.

Design

Prospective observational cohort study.

Setting

Two-centre study in a Swedish county emergency medical service (EMS) organisation.

Participants

Unselected inclusion of 2917 patients with chest pain cared for by the EMS during 2018.

Data analysis

Multivariate analysis on the association between symptom characteristics, patients' sex, age, previous acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or diabetes and the final outcome of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Results

Symptomology in patients assessed by the EMS due to acute chest pain varied with sex and age and also with previous ACS or diabetes. Women suffered more often from nausea (

SUBMITTER: Wibring K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9364405 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature