Aiming Towards Evidence Based Interpretation of Cardiac Biomarkers in Patients Presenting With Chest Pain

The main aim of the WESTCOR study is to * investigate the ability of two high sensitive cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assays to diagnose acute coronary syndrome and predict prognosis in different patient populations (e.g. gender, age and co-morbidity) * to validate the suggested 1 hour protocol for rule in and rule out of acute coronary syndrome for two hs-cTn assays in an unselected chest pain population * to investigate different biomarkers ability to predict long term prognosis after hospitalization for chest pain