Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 15th, 2006
"Among 4,333 patients who were triaged in the emergency department (ED) over a 1-year period in 2003 because of acute chest pain, 1,747 (40%) were stratified as 'low risk' on the basis of a Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score of 0 to 2," researchers in Italy report.
F. Pelliccia and colleagues working with the San Filippo Neri Hospital discovered "during ED stay, TIMI risk score increased to {{>=}}3 in 63% of patients and that such patients were more likely to be diabetic, hypertensive,...
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