Table 3.

Medications Administered to Young Patients in ED Presenting With Chest Pain by Sex^*

	Women, % (95% CI)	Men, % (95% CI)	P value
Sample size	n=2319	n=1833
National estimate	n=16 880 659	n=12 849 486
Medications prescribed in ED or at discharge	66.8% (63.7%–69.7%)	69.3% (65.2%–73.0%)	0.202
Antiplatelets	17.1% (14.4%–20.1%)	21.7% (18.4%–25.6%)	0.004
Antianginal	8.0% (6.3%–10.1%)	11.2% (9.1%–13.7%)	0.002
Gastroenterological agents	8.1% (6.7%–9.7%)	9.1% (7.1%–11.6%)	0.354
Narcotic analgesics	15.6% (13.1%–18.6%)	15.2% (13.1%–17.5%)	0.78
Benzodiazepines	9.1% (7.5%–11.0%)	6.9% (5.3%–8.8%)	0.052
NSAIDs	17.6% (15.6%–19.8%)	16.6% (14.1%–19.5%)	0.566

that anticoagulants could not be analyzed because of <30 unweighted records among women and men. ED indicates emergency department.

^*Percentages are based on national estimates.