Table 2

Discharge diagnosis in patients with elevated TnT who were not diagnosed as ACS by any of the three methods of ascertainment (N=823)

	First diagnosis	Second diagnosis
Chest pain	103	13
Heart failure	137	27
Stroke	28	5
Seizure	4	0
Cardiac arrest	10	3
Ventricular tachycardia	16	2
Supraventricular tachycardia	41	41
Pulmonary thromboembolism	15	3
Other cardiovascular	43	4
Ischaemic heart disease	44	18
Renal disease	17	46
Cancer	51	11
Septicaemia	21	7
Infection	129	37
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	61	5
Trauma or fracture	35	0
Haemorrhage	2	2
Other	49	2
Not reported	17	0