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Sixteen per cent concerned patients with a high-risk condition in need of rapid transport to hospital care. Numerous variables with significant association with low-risk or high-risk conditions were found. In total high-risk and low-risk prediction models shared six predictive variables of which ST-depression on ECG and age were most important. Previously known risk factors such as history of acute coronary syndrome, diabetes and hypertension had no predictive value in the multivariate analyses. Some aspects of the symptoms such as pain intensity, pain in the right arm and paleness did on the other hand appear to be helpful. The area under the curve (AUC) for prediction of low-risk candidates was 0.786 and for high-risk candidates 0.796. 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