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Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain
BACKGROUND: Sex‐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, bec...
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2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28637780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.005373 |
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author | Bank, Ingrid E. M. de Hoog, Vince C. de Kleijn, Dominique P. V. Pasterkamp, Gerard Doevendans, Pieter A. den Ruijter, Hester M. Dalmeijer, Geertje Wildbergh, Thierry X. Mosterd, Arend Timmers, Leo |
author_facet | Bank, Ingrid E. M. de Hoog, Vince C. de Kleijn, Dominique P. V. Pasterkamp, Gerard Doevendans, Pieter A. den Ruijter, Hester M. Dalmeijer, Geertje Wildbergh, Thierry X. Mosterd, Arend Timmers, Leo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Sex‐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, because sex‐based differences may exist among the algorithm's components: history, electrocardiogram, age, risk factors, and admission troponin level. METHODS AND RESULTS: The HEART score was retrospectively assessed in 831 women and 1084 men presenting to the emergency department with acute chest pain, assigning patients to the low‐, intermediate‐, or high‐risk category for the occurrence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) within 6 weeks. MACE, consisting of myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, and all‐cause death, also included events during index visit. Six‐week MACE rates were 2 times lower in women than men (10.0% versus 20.8%; P<0.01). Despite similar discriminatory accuracy of the HEART score among women and men (c‐statistic, 0.80 [0.75–0.84] versus 0.77 [0.74–0.81]; P=0.43), 6‐week MACE rates were significantly lower in women than men across all HEART risk categories: 2.1% versus 6.5% (P<0.01) in the low‐risk category, 12.7% versus 21.3% (P<0.01) in intermediate‐risk category, and 53.1% versus 77.0% (P=0.02) in the high‐risk category. The HEART score‐adjusted risk ratio for men was 1.6 (1.3–2.0; P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The markedly higher 6‐week MACE risk in men across all HEART risk categories should be taken into account when using the HEART score to guide clinical decision making; early discharge with a low‐risk HEART score appears less safe for men than women with acute chest pain. |
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spelling | pubmed-56691652017-11-09 Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain Bank, Ingrid E. M. de Hoog, Vince C. de Kleijn, Dominique P. V. Pasterkamp, Gerard Doevendans, Pieter A. den Ruijter, Hester M. Dalmeijer, Geertje Wildbergh, Thierry X. Mosterd, Arend Timmers, Leo J Am Heart Assoc Original Research BACKGROUND: Sex‐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, because sex‐based differences may exist among the algorithm's components: history, electrocardiogram, age, risk factors, and admission troponin level. METHODS AND RESULTS: The HEART score was retrospectively assessed in 831 women and 1084 men presenting to the emergency department with acute chest pain, assigning patients to the low‐, intermediate‐, or high‐risk category for the occurrence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) within 6 weeks. MACE, consisting of myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, and all‐cause death, also included events during index visit. Six‐week MACE rates were 2 times lower in women than men (10.0% versus 20.8%; P<0.01). Despite similar discriminatory accuracy of the HEART score among women and men (c‐statistic, 0.80 [0.75–0.84] versus 0.77 [0.74–0.81]; P=0.43), 6‐week MACE rates were significantly lower in women than men across all HEART risk categories: 2.1% versus 6.5% (P<0.01) in the low‐risk category, 12.7% versus 21.3% (P<0.01) in intermediate‐risk category, and 53.1% versus 77.0% (P=0.02) in the high‐risk category. The HEART score‐adjusted risk ratio for men was 1.6 (1.3–2.0; P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The markedly higher 6‐week MACE risk in men across all HEART risk categories should be taken into account when using the HEART score to guide clinical decision making; early discharge with a low‐risk HEART score appears less safe for men than women with acute chest pain. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5669165/ /pubmed/28637780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.005373 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Bank, Ingrid E. M. de Hoog, Vince C. de Kleijn, Dominique P. V. Pasterkamp, Gerard Doevendans, Pieter A. den Ruijter, Hester M. Dalmeijer, Geertje Wildbergh, Thierry X. Mosterd, Arend Timmers, Leo Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain |
title | Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain |
title_full | Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain |
title_fullStr | Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain |
title_full_unstemmed | Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain |
title_short | Sex‐Based Differences in the Performance of the HEART Score in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain |
title_sort | sex‐based differences in the performance of the heart score in patients presenting to the emergency department with acute chest pain |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28637780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.005373 |
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