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Table 4 The Marburg CHD score as proxy indicator for the typicality of chest pain: gender distribution for different score values in all patients and patients with CHD

From: Gender bias revisited: new insights on the differential management of chest pain

 

All patients with chest pain

Patients with ref. diagnosis CHD

 

Women (n = 465)

Men (n = 356)

p-value

Women (n = 46)

Men (n = 57)

p-value

Score 0

59 (12.7%)

36 (10.1%)

 

1 (2.2%)

0 (0.0%)

 

Score 1

129 (27.7%)

78 (21.9%)

 

1 (2.2%)

0 (0.0%)

 

Score 2

165 (35.5%)

116 (32.6%)

<0.01

16 (34.8%)

17 (29.8%)

0.01

Score 3

88 (18.9%)

91 (25.6%)

 

18 (39.1%)

22 (38.6%)

 

Score 4

24 (5.2%)

35 (9.8%)

 

10 (21.7%)

18 (31.6%)

 

Score 5

8 (1.7%)

16 (4.5%)

 

7 (15.2%)

14 (24.6%)

 
  1. The score ranges from 0-5 points. Each of the following five variables contributes 1 point: age (female≥65, male≥55), known clinical vascular disease, pain worse on exertion, patient assumes cardiac origin of pain, pain not reproducible by palpation