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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2021 Jan 6;77(4):416–424. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.10.022

Table 3.

Outcomes of HEART score risk categories, stratified by sex.

Women, No. (%) Men, No. (%) OR (95% CI)
Low risk (HEART score 0–3)
Hospitalized or stress tested N=2,221 N=1,835
  MACE 1 (0.05) 8 (0.44) 0.10 (0.01–0.83)
  AMI 0 6 (0.33) NA
  Death 1 (0.05) 2 (0.11) 0.41 (0.04–4.57)
Hospitalized N=615 N=535
  MACE 1 (0.16) 4 (0.74) 0.22 (0.02–1.93)
  AMI 0 2 (0.37) NA
  Death 1 (0.16) 2 (0.37) 0.43 (0.04–4.78)
Stress tested N=1,717 N=1,399
  MACE 0 5 (0.36) NA
  AMI 0 5 (0.36) NA
  Death 0 0 NA
All HEART scores (0–10)
Hospitalized or stress tested N=5,936 N=5,635
  MACE 43 (0.72) 63 (1.12) 0.63 (0.43–0.94)
  AMI 23 (0.39) 45 (0.80) 0.47 (0.28–0.78)
  Death 21 (0.35) 20 (0.35) 1.00 (0.54–1.84)
Hospitalized N=2,787 N=3,012
  MACE 41 (1.47) 55 (1.83) 0.80 (0.53–1.20)
  AMI 22 (0.79) 37 (1.23) 0.63 (0.36–1.08)
  Death 20 (0.72) 19 (0.63) 1.14 (0.61–2.14)
Stress tested N=4,092 N =3,608
  MACE 8 (0.20) 22 (0.61) 0.32 (0.14–0.72)
  AMI 6 (0.15) 20 (0.55) 0.26 (0.11–0.66)
  Death 2 (0.05) 3 (0.08) 0.59 (0.10–3.52)

MACE, Major adverse cardiac event; AMI, acute myocardial infarction.