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Relative risk of a cardiac event over the following six months |
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| Test |
Event rate: positive test |
Event rate: negative test |
Relative risk (95% CI) |
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| Serial ECG & ST monitoring N = 690 |
5/41 |
27/649 |
2.72 (1.10 to 6.74) |
| Initial CK-MB(mass) N = 687 |
5/39 |
27/648 |
2.84 (1.15 to 7.02) |
| Delayed CK-MB(mass) N = 601 |
5/44 |
23/557 |
2.57 (1.02 to 6.47) |
| Delta CK-MB(mass) N = 601 |
3/31 |
25/570 |
2.10 (0.67 to 6.61) |
| Any positive CK-MB(mass) N = 601 |
8/59 |
24/628 |
3.24 (1.52 to 6.93) |
| Troponin T > = 0.1 ng/ml N = 686 |
8/33 |
24/673 |
6.80 (3.31 to 13.96) |
| Troponin T > = 0.03 ng/ml N = 686 |
9/54 |
23/632 |
4.58 (2.23 to 9.40) |
| Exercise treadmill test N = 422 |
9/37 |
4/385 |
19.03 (6.10 to 59.34) |
Goodacre et al. BMC Emergency Medicine 2005 5:6 doi:10.1186/1471-227X-5-6 |
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