Unexplained chest/epigastric pain in patients with normal endoscopy as a predictor for ischemic heart disease and mortality: A Danish 10-year cohort study

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Munk, Estrid Muff ^a   Nørgård, Bente ^b,c   Dethlefsen, Claus ^a   Gregersen, Hans ^b   Drewes, Asbjørn Mohr ^b   Funch Jensen, Peter ^b   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX PAIN; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADULT; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 48549101280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-8-28     Document Type: Article

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