Chest Pain Severity Doesn’t Predict Likelihood of Heart Attack

Patients’ severity of pain is not associated with the likelihood of having a heart attack, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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Researchers studied pain scores of patients arriving in the emergency department with potential acute coronary syndrome. They found that neither severe pain nor pain duration greater than one hour was associated with acute myocardial infarction or the outcome at 30 days after the ED visit.

Read the Annals of Emergency Medicine abstract on heart attacks.

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