Introduction Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a life-threatening disease frequently
managed in the Emergency Department (ED). Risk factors such as age, hypertension …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We seek to determine whether cardiac risk factor burden (defined as
the number of conventional cardiac risk factors present) is useful for the diagnosis of acute …

In the United States alone, 400 000 Americans die annu-ally of coronary artery disease, and
1 000 000 suffer acute coronary events, ie, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death …

Every year, 5 million patients are evaluated for chest pain in emergency departments (EDs)
in the United States. Approximately 2 million patients will be diagnosed as having an acute …

Screening for early-stage asymptomatic cancers (eg, cancers of breast and colon) to prevent
late-stage malignancies has been widely accepted. However, although atherosclerotic …

Objective: To investigate the hypothesis that risk factors may be differently related to severity
of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), with ST elevation used as a marker of severe ACS …

STUDY: objective: Clinical research requires high-quality data collection. Data collected at
the emergency department evaluation is generally considered more precise than data …

A 47-year-old woman with a history of gastroesophageal reflux disease, hypertension, and
hyperlipidemia arrives in the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath for 4 …

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains one of the leading causes of death in the United
States. With its heightened prevalence, considerable variabilities in the disease process …

BACKGROUND: Hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus, tobacco smoking and a
family history of premature coronary artery disease are known to be risk factors for the …