Patients who suffer chest pains may be dying unnecessarily because a commonly used test is not good enough to pick up the warning signs of heart disease, according to researchers. Doctors at the London Chest Hospital found that, of 4,873 patients given an electrocardiogram (ECG) scan when reporting chest pains, almost half (47 per cent) went on to suffer a “coronary event” – such as a heart attack – despite a “negative” result that did not pick up any abnormalities.
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