Chest pain--indigestion or impending heart attack?
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Journal: 1984/August - Postgraduate Medical Journal
ISSN: 0032-5473
PUBMED: 6739390
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A high proportion (40%) of patients with definite myocardial ischaemia who were questioned on admission to a Cardiac Monitoring Unit had experienced preceding chest pain which had been misinterpreted by both the patients themselves and doctors as 'indigestion' and which had often been inappropriately treated. 'Indigestion' in the chest in previously non-dyspeptic subjects over 40 years of age should be regarded as myocardial ischaemia until proved otherwise.
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Postgrad Med J 60(703): 338-340
PMID: 6739390

Chest pain--indigestion or impending heart attack?

Abstract

A high proportion (40%) of patients with definite myocardial ischaemia who were questioned on admission to a Cardiac Monitoring Unit had experienced preceding chest pain which had been misinterpreted by both the patients themselves and doctors as 'indigestion' and which had often been inappropriately treated. 'Indigestion' in the chest in previously non-dyspeptic subjects over 40 years of age should be regarded as myocardial ischaemia until proved otherwise.

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Abstract
A high proportion (40%) of patients with definite myocardial ischaemia who were questioned on admission to a Cardiac Monitoring Unit had experienced preceding chest pain which had been misinterpreted by both the patients themselves and doctors as 'indigestion' and which had often been inappropriately treated. 'Indigestion' in the chest in previously non-dyspeptic subjects over 40 years of age should be regarded as myocardial ischaemia until proved otherwise.
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