Table 5 Primary diagnosis, in‐hospital and 6‐month all‐cause mortality in patients with and without acute coronary syndrome with raised troponin T levels.

	n	TnT, median (range)	In‐hospital mortality, n (%)	6‐month mortality, n (%)
No ACS
Cardiovascular
Congestive cardiac failure	19	0.05 (0.01–0.12)	6 (32)	8 (42)
Supraventricular tachycardia	10	0.04 (0.01–0.13)	0 (0)	1 (10)
Hypotension	6	0.03 (0.01–0.11)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Myopericarditis	3	0.02 (0.02–0.03)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Pulmonary embolism	2	0.11 (0.06–0.16)	1 (50)	1 (50)
Malignant hypertension	1	0.02	0 (0)	0 (0)
Cardiac arrest	1	0.60	1 (100)	1 (100)
Subtotal	42	0.05 (0.01–0.60)	8 (19)	11 (26)
Respiratory
Chest infection or exacerbation of COPD	28	0.04 (0.02–0.15)	13 (46)	16 (57)
Gastrointestinal
Bowel perforation	4	0.06 (0.02–0.13)	2 (50)	2 (50)
Bleed	3	0.03 (0.03–1.02)	3 (100)	3 (100)
Hepatorenal syndrome	1	0.05	1 (100)	1 (100)
Subtotal	8	0.05 (0.02–1.02)	6 (75)	6 (75)
Renal failure	4	0.06 (0.02–0.40)	1 (25)	1 (25)
Stroke	8	0.09 (0.02–0.17)	5 (63)	5 (63)
Sepsis or septicaemia	12	0.05 (0.02–1.72)	6 (50)	6 (50)
Malignancy	7	0.05 (0.02–0.46)	3 (43)	3 (43)
Collapse or fall	7	0.03 (0.02–0.29)	1 (14)	1 (14)
Others	2	0.05 (0.01–0.09)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Total	118	0.05 (0.01–1.72)	43 (36)*	49 (42)†
ACS
Total	195	0.34 (0.01–33.61)	36 (18)*	56 (29)†

ACS, acute coronary syndrome; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; TnT, troponin T.

*In‐hospital mortality, non‐ACS v ACS; p<0.001.

†6‐month mortality, non‐ACS v ACS; p = 0.020.