High medium-term incidence of major cardiovascular events in discharged patients with unstable angina

This study aims to determine whether using hsTn results in medium-term prognostic differences in patients with unstable angina and NSTEMI. This multicenter, prospective registry study included consecutive patients who underwent hsTn assays and were discharged with a diagnosis of NSTEACS. Medium-term incidence of MACE was similar in patients with unstable angina and NSTEMI (p=0.79), but cardiovascular (p=0.012) and all-cause mortality (p=0.002) in NSTEMI patients was over twice that of patients with UA.