Ethnic differences in clinical outcome of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain

European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 32-40

  de Hoog, Vince C ^a,b,c   Lim, Swee Han ^d   Bank, Ingrid EM ^a,e   Gijsberts, Crystel M ^a,b   Ibrahim, Irwani B ^f   Kuan, Win Sen ^f   Ooi, Shirley BS ^f   Chua, Terrance ^g   den Ruijter, Hester M ^a   Pasterkamp, Gerard ^a   Tai, E Shyong ^c   Gao, Fei ^g,h   Doevendans, Pieter A ^a   Wildbergh, Thierry X ^e   Mosterd, Arend ^a,e   Richards, A Mark ^c,i   de Kleijn, Dominique PV ^a,b,c   Timmers, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b INTERUNIVERSITY CARDIOLOGY INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^g DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^h DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

chest pain; coronary artery disease; Ethnicity; major adverse cardiac events; myocardial infarction; outcome

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INDIAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAY (PEOPLE); MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CHEST PAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NETHERLANDS; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 85050580550     PISSN: 20488726     EISSN: 20488734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2048872615623064     Document Type: Article

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