Prevalence, characteristics and outcome of non-cardiac chest pain and elevated copeptin levels.

Objective: Copeptin, a quantitative marker of endogenous stress, seems to provide incremental value in addition to cardiac troponin in the early rule-out of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Prevalence, characteristics and outcome of acute chest pain patients with causes other than AMI and elevated copeptin are poorly understood.

Methods: A total of 984 consecutive patients with non-cardiac chest pain were selected from a prospective multicentre study of acute chest pain patients presenting to the emergency department.

Obesity is related to multiple functional abdominal diseases.

Analysis of the body mass index of pediatric patients with gastrointestinal complaints as a whole and by disease subgroup revealed a greater percentage of obese patients with constipation, gastroesophageal reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, encopresis, and functional abdominal pain compared with local and New Jersey control populations.