Table 2.

Symptom Presentation by Sex

	Overall			Among Patients with STEMI			Among Patients with NSTEMI			Among Patients with No Chest Pain
	Women (n=2009)	Men (n=976)	p*	Women (n=922)	Men (n=563)	p*	Women (n=1087)	Men (n=413)	p*	Women (n=261)	Men (n=102)	p*
Individual Symptoms, %
Chest pain, pressure, tightness, or discomfort	87.0	89.5	0.185	87.3	91.5	0.092	86.8	86.9	1
Dizziness	28.0	26.3	0.774	29.5	28.1	1	26.7	23.8	0.999	21.9	22.8	1
Epigastric: indigestion, nausea, or stomach pain, pressure, burning, or discomfort	61.5	50.2	<0.001	67.1	53.1	<0.001	56.8	46.2	0.003	55.2	51.0	1
Pain/discomfort in jaw, neck, arms, or between shoulder blades	64.9	58.1	0.002	67.7	58.6	0.003	62.6	57.3	0.293	55.4	48.5	1
Palpitations	18.7	12.5	<0.001	15.4	11.0	0.103	21.5	14.6	0.022	8.5	11.9	1
Shortness of breath	52.8	47.6	0.043	51.2	48.7	1	54.2	46.1	0.035	41.2	42.6	1
Sweating	53.3	55.5	0.774	62.1	63.1	1	45.8	45.1	1	39.2	40.6	1
Weakness or fatigue	45.2	40.9	0.142	46.1	43.7	1	44.4	37.1	0.068	31.9	32.7	1
Confusion	12.1	11.2	0.774	13.3	12.6	1	11.0	9.2	0.999	10.0	4.0	0.496
Number of Associated, Non-Chest Pain Symptoms
Mean (SD)	3.4 (2.0)	3.0 (1.9)	<0.001	3.5 (1.9)	3.2 (1.9)	0.001	3.2 (2.0)	2.8 (1.9)	<0.001	2.6 (1.7)	2.5 (1.5)	0.582
0 symptoms	5.6	6.7	<0.001	4.2	5.7	0.009	6.8	8.0	<0.001	4.2	4.9	0.801
1–2 symptoms	32.5	38.5		29.8	36.8		34.7	40.9		49.4	50
3–4 symptoms	33.0	33.4		36.2	33.6		30.2	33.2		31.8	34.3
>4 symptoms	29.0	21.4		29.7	24.0		28.3	17.9		14.6	10.8

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; NSTEMI, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction; STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

^*The stepdown Bonferroni method was used to adjust the p values for multiple pairwise comparisons.