Presentation of chest pain and the proportion of cases presenting to a general practitioner who received a provisional diagnosis of coronary heart disease (CHD)
| Deprivation category | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,2 | 3,4,5 | 6,7 | |||||||
| proportion of cases presenting, % (n) | proportion of those presenting to GP who received a provisional CHD diagnosis % (n) | proportion of cases presenting, % (n) | proportion of those presenting to GP who received a provisional CHD diagnosis % (n) | proportion of cases presenting, % (n) | proportion of those presenting to GP who received a provisional CHD diagnosis % (n) | ||||
| Men | |||||||||
| Rose angina grade II | 75.0 (9) | 71.4 (5) | 70.0 (7) | 66.7 (4) | 68.4 (26) | 66.7 (12) | |||
| Rose angina grade I | 54.3 (19) | 66.7 (10) | 68.0 (17) | 50.0 (7) | 67.3 (37) | 60.7 (17) | |||
| Non-exertional chest pain | 50.3 (90) | 38.6 (27) | 57.7 (37) | 57.1 (16) | 61.7 (29) | 39.1 (9) | |||
| Total | 52.2 (118) | 45.1 (42) | 61.6 (61) | 56.3 (27) | 65.7 (92) | 55.1 (38) | |||
| Women | |||||||||
| Rose angina grade II | 61.5 (8) | 87.5 (7) | 66.7 (16) | 42.9 (6) | 60.5 (23) | 68.4 (13) | |||
| Rose angina grade I | 36.6 (26) | 52.6 (10) | 40.0 (14) | 60.0 (6) | 67.8 (40) | 64.7 (22) | |||
| Non-exertional chest pain | 38.8 (62) | 13.3 (6) | 48.3 (29) | 53.8 (14) | 58.5 (24) | 14.3 (2) | |||
| Total | 39.3 (96) | 30.4 (23) | 49.6 (59) | 52.0 (26) | 63.0 (87) | 55.2 (37) | |||
Whether or not presentation had occurred was clear in 966 (97.4%) of the 1107 classified cases of chest pain. The provisional GP diagnosis was clear in 398 (87.7%) of the 454 cases who presented to a GP.