Table 1.

Characteristics of emergency department visits for chest pain in the 2011–2019 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (weighted counts, rounded to the nearest thousand).

	All Visits	UDS	Visits for Chest Pain	UDS
Age
18–29	240,938,000(25.1%)	13,013,000(28.6%)	13,325,000(15.5%)	703,000(17.7%)
30–39	169,990,000(17.7%)	9,877,000(21.7%)	13,036,000(15.2%)	933,000(23.5%)
40–49	147,636,000(15.4%)	8,263,000(18.1%)	15,379,000(17.9%)	899,000(22.7%)
50–64	201,702,000(21.0%)	9,932,000(21.8%)	23,610,000(27.5%)	1,089,000(27.5%)
65+	201,491,000(21.0%)	4,449,000(9.8%)	20,485,000(23.9%)	341,000(8.6%)
Race
White	578,655,000(60.2%)	27,718,000(60.9%)	51,050,000(59.5%)	2,274,000(57.3%)
Black/African American	195,091,000(20.3%)	9,915,000(21.8%)	18,230,000(21.2%)	1,116,000(28.1%)
Asian	14,244,000(1.5%)	425,000(0.9%)	1,352,000(1.6%)	30,000(0.8%)
Native American/Alaska Native	6,037,000(0.6%)	414,000(0.9%)	472,000(0.5%)	10,000(0.3%)
Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander	2,469,000(0.3%)	107,000(0.2%)	248,000(0.3%)	3,000(0.1%)
More than one race reported	2,497,000(0.3%)	84,000(0.2%)	211,000(0.2%)	400(0%)
Unknown	162,763,000(16.9%)	6,872,000(15.1%)	14,274,000(16.6%)	533,000(13.4%)
Gender
Female	550,823,000(57.3%)	21,121,000(46.4%)	47,776,000(55.7%)	1,579,000(39.8%)
Male	410,933,000(42.7%)	24,412,000(53.6%)	38,060,000(44.3%)	2,387,000(60.2%)
Disposition
Discharge	769,389,000(80%)	25,400,000(55.8%)	59,113,000(68.9%)	2,472,000(62.3%)
Admit	157,051,000(16.3%)	18,259,000(40.1%)	24,256,000(28.3%)	1,415,000(35.7%)
Transfer	33,585,000(3.5%)	1,755,000(3.9%)	2,325,000(2.7%)	72,000(1.8%)
Died	1,731,000(0.2%)	119,000(0.3%)	141,000(0.2%)	7,000(0.2%)
N (%)	961,757,000(100%)	45,533,000(100%)	85,836,000(100%)	3,966,000(100%)

UDS, urine drug screen.