Table 6 Six‐month hospital re‐admissions in patients with and without acute coronary syndrome with raised troponin T levels.

	No ACS, n = 19	ACS, n = 35
Cardiac re‐admissions
ACS neg TnT	1	4
ACS pos TnT	2	15
Congestive cardiac failure	6	8
Supraventricular tachycardia	1	1
Bradycardia or hypotension	1	2
All‐cause mortality	1 (9%)	10 (29%)
Non‐cardiac re‐admissions	8	5
All‐cause mortality	0 (0%)	2 (40%)
Total all‐cause mortality (cardiac and non‐cardiac)	1 (5%)	12 (34%)*

*p = 0.021.

ACS, acute coronary syndrome; neg TnT, without raised troponin T; pos TnT, with raised troponin T; TnT, troponin T.