What is the importance of making chest pain and chest discomfort a risk factor for myocardial infarction?
Chest pain (or delaying when you are having chest pain) needs to be identified as a risk factor for an acute myocardial infarction. By doing so it will allow us to get on a learning curve about chest pain and see that it is not chest pain itself that is the problem, but the chest discomfort (milder) which is a prelude to the chest pain. This to date lacks adequate public health awareness for advantage to be taking of this fact.
