Abstract | OBJECTIVE: To investigate the combination of clinical data, exercise testing and biomarkers for the evaluation of patients with chest pain without ST-segment deviation or troponin elevation. DESIGN: Prospective cohort design. SETTTING: Two teaching hospitals in Spain. PATIENTS: MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: RESULTS: By receiver operating characteristic curve analysis, the association between death or myocardial infarction and adverse events was not significant with leukocyte count (p = 0.3, p = 0.3) or CRP (p = 0.5, p = 0.8), was borderline significant with PAPP-A (p = 0.07, p = 0.04) and strongly significant with NT-pro-BNP (p = 0.0001, p = 0.0001). By Cox regression including clinical risk score, exercise testing result and biomarkers, exercise testing was the independent predictor of revascularisation (p = 0.0001), whereas risk score (p = 0.03) and NT-proBNP (p = 0.0004) predicted death or myocardial infarction. The inclusion of NT-proBNP improved the accuracy of the model for death or myocardial infarction (C-statistic 0.84 versus 0.76, p = 0.01). The combination of clinical score and NT-proBNP afforded the stratification in high (17.2%, p = 0.0001), intermediate (5.3%) and low (1.1%) risk categories of death or myocardial infarction. CONCLUSIONS:
NT-proBNP provides incremental prognostic information above that given by clinical history and exercise testing in patients with chest pain without ST-segment deviation and negative troponin.
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Authors | J Sanchis, X Bosch, V Bodí, N Bellera, J Núñez, B Benito, J Ordóñez, L Consuegra, M Heras, A Llècer |
Journal | Heart (British Cardiac Society)
(Heart)
Vol. 94
Issue 3
Pg. 311-5
(Mar 2008)
ISSN: 1468-201X [Electronic] England |
PMID | 17639094
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Multicenter Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Biomarkers
- Peptide Fragments
- Troponin
- pro-brain natriuretic peptide (1-76)
- Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
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Topics |
- Biomarkers
(blood)
- Chest Pain
(blood, mortality)
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Exercise Test
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Myocardial Infarction
(blood, mortality)
- Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
(blood)
- Peptide Fragments
(blood)
- Troponin
(blood)
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