| ACS | Acute coronary syndrome |
| AMI | Acute myocardial infarction |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| NT-proBNP | N-terminal proBNP |
| CBM | China Biomedical Literature Database |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CK-MB | Creatine kinase MB |
| CNKI | China National Knowledge Infrastructure |
| cTn I | Cardiac troponin I |
| cTn T | Cardiac troponin T |
| ELISA | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| MI | Myocardial infarction |
| PMI | Postmortem interval |
| POCT | Point-of-care testing |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic curve |
| SCD | Sudden cardiac death |
| WMD | Weighted mean difference |