From: Chest wall syndrome among primary care patients: a cohort study
The six most discriminative clinical characteristics of CWS | Logistic regression Odd Ratio (IC95%)1 |
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Pain is | |
- not squeezing nor oppressive | 2.53 (1.21–5.28) |
- localised on the left or median-left part of the chest wall | 2.28 (1.58–3.28) |
- well localised on the chest wall | 2.10 (1.37–3.22) |
- non exercise-induced chest pain | 1.58 (1.00–2.49) |
- influenced by mechanical factors2 | 1.54 (1.06–2.24) |
- reproducible by palpation | 5.72 (1.20–5.28) |