What's up guys and welcome to the second episode of the Physician

assistant boards.com podcast and today we're going to talk about chest pain.

So chest pain is one of those symptoms that can be very scary. I know we're taught in school

to think of chest pain of something that's very life-threatening. However, the

majority of the time these are actually very benign causes of chest pain.

And a lot of times, there really, in fact,

is no chest pain.

So just to give you an example,

the University of Michigan did a study over a one-year period,

and this was done in a family practice setting.

They had 399 patients reviewed for the complaint of chest pain.

What they found was 20% of all the diagnosis were musculoskeletal, followed by

reflux, which was at 13%, and costochondritis was at 13.1%.

Stable Angina was the diagnosis only 10% of the time in these chest pain patients.

Unstable or possible MIs, so ACS, was only present in about one or one and a half percent of these patients.

Now, this means that half percent of these patients.

Now, this means that 60% of the patients

actually had no organic cause whatsoever.

So that means they really had no idea

or really couldn't identify the cause of the chest pain.

Now clearly, you know, as the older the person gets, the more likely there really is to be some type of coronary artery disease or some type of

eschemia as a cause of chest pain. But I want you to know

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