HEART Score in Predicting One-Month Major Adverse Car-diac Events in Patients with Acute Chest Pain; a DiagnosticAccuracy Study

Screening of high-risk patients and accelerating their therapeutic procedures can reduce the bur-den of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of HEART score in predictingthe risk of one-month major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in these patients.

In this prospectivecross-sectional study, the accuracy of HEART score in patients over 18 years old who presented to emergencydepartment following acute chest pain, was evaluated during a 21-month period. Each patient was followed upregarding the incidence of MACE for one month via phone call and the hospital’s integrated health informationsystem.

240 cases with the mean age of 60.50 ± 16.07 years were studied (56.3% male). MACE wasobserved in 77 (32.1%) cases. The most common MACE was percutaneous coronary artery revascularization(PCAR) (12.9%). The mean HEART score of studied cases was 4.74 ± 2.12. The mean score of cases with MACEwas significantly higher than others (6.25 ± 1.97 versus 4.03 ± 1.79; p < 0.0001). Based on this score, the risk ofMACE was high in 34 (14.2%), moderate in 118 (49.2%), and low in 88 (36.7%) cases. The incidence of one-monthMACE was 85.3% in high-risk cases, 35.6% in moderate one, and 6.8% in low-risk cases based on HEART score.The area under the ROC curve of HEART score in predicting the risk of MACE was 0.796 (95% CI: 0.736 – 0.856).The best cut off point of HEART score in this regard was calculated as 4.5. The sensitivity and specificity of thisscore in 4.5 cut off were 83.11% (95% CI: 72.49 – 90.35) and 66.25% (95% CI: 58.38 – 73.35), respectively.

Conclusion:

Based on the findings of the present study the mean HEART score of ACS patients with one-month MACEwas significantly higher than others and the incidence of MACE in high-risk patients was significantly higher.But the overall accuracy of score in predicting one-month MACE in ACS patients was in moderate range