Emergency department visits among non-Western and Western women with no obstructive coronary artery disease: results from a nationwide cohort
Authors' conclusion
Ethnicity was associated with ED visits, with non-Western women having significantly more visits regardless of whether the underlying chest pain was related to angina or non-specific symptoms.
Study context
- Population
- Danish non-Western and Western women with symptoms of angina or non-specific chest pain but no obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), assessed with coronary angiography or cardiac CTwomen included in the two symptom groups · angina 17,835 · non-specific chest pain 42,831 · non-Western, angina group 1,484 · non-Western, non-specific chest pain group 3,644
- Participants
- 60,666 participants
- Exposure
- non-Western women more commonly presented to the emergency department (ED) following diagnosis compared with Western women
- Outcome
- ED visits following diagnosis
- Follow-up
- Within 3 years following the diagnosis
Methodological detailssubstudy to the WOMANOCA cohort, multivariable Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for age, Charlson Comorbidity Index, body mass index and educational level
- Substudy to the WOMANOCA cohort
- Multivariable Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for age, Charlson Comorbidity Index, body mass index and educational level
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
non-Western women vs Western womenAdjusted hazard ratio (95% CI)
Angina
1.42(1.28–1.56)
Non-specific chest pain
1.25(1.18–1.33)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Proportion non-Western
Original publication
Emergency department visits among non-Western and Western women with no obstructive coronary artery disease: results from a nationwide cohort. Heart. Published 27 April 2026. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it