Chest pain in primary care: is the localization of pain diagnostically helpful in the critical evaluation of patients? - A cross sectional study

Table 1 Final diagnoses in patients presenting with chest pain to their GP (n = 1212)

Diagnosis	Frequency (n = 1212)	%
Chest wall syndrome*	565	46.6
Coronary Heart Disease	179	14.8
Psychogenic disorders	115	9.5
Upper respiratory infections	98	8.1
Hypertension	48	4.0
Gastroesophageal reflux disease	42	3.5
Trauma	39	3.2
Benign stomach problems	26	2.1
Pleuro-pneumonia	25	2.1
COPD/Asthma	23	1.9
Other	52	4.3

*A variety of diagnostic terms like costochondritis, costosternal syndrome, sternalis syndrome, Tietze’s syndrome, rib-tip syndrome or xiphoidalgia have been used in the past to describe and differentiate musculoskeletal causes of chest pain. We decided to summarize these outcomes as chest wall syndrome.

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