Browse Guides  internal medicine  cardiology

Myocardial infarction

Prevalence
Clinical features
Differential diagnosis
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis
Clinical features

Ask about any sweating b

Why?

Sweating makes a myocardial infarction more likely

Patient Target Disorder and
Reference Standard		 Diagnostic Test LR+
(95% CI) 		Post-test Probability LR-
(95% CI) 		Post-test Probability
anterior chest pain b (pre-test probability: 12%) myocardial infarction
(cardiac enzymes, ECG) 		history of sweating 2.5
(2.0 to 3.3) 		26% 0.52
(0.38 to 0.71) 		7%

Expiry date: November 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , B   Phillips , CM   Ball