Table 1.

Costing data of tests, clinical events and coronary angiography

	Direct Costs		Indirect Costs
	Relative 3	Absolute	Events	Morbidity	Mortality	Overall
c-TnT or I		13,504
treadmill exercise test	1	140
stress echocardiography	2.1×	294
SPECT scintigraphy	5.7×	798
Coronary Angiography	21.7×	3038
Unstable Angina			10.3013	5101		10.811
Acute Myocardial Infarction			16.7813	11.5021		28.283
Heart Failure			14.0901	11.5021		25.592
Cardiac Death			10.4145		114.4841	124.898
Fatal Cancer			50.5492	12.3092	75.3872	138.246
Non Fatal Cancer			50.5492	12.3092		62.858

Costs are expressed in US dollars years 2003¹, 2004², 1999–2001³, 1997⁴, 2000⁵