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Artificial intelligence contributes to the early detection of pathologies, such as chest pain. In this study, the machine learning techniques were used, performing an analysis of 27 variables provided by a database with information from 258 geriatric patients with 60 years old average age from Medical Norte Hospital in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The objective of this analysis is to determine which variables are correlated with thoracic pain of cardiac origin and use the results as secondary parameters to evaluate the thoracic pain in the emergency rooms, and determine if its origin comes from a CVD or not. For this, two machine learning techniques were used: Tree classification and cross-validation. As a result, the Logistic Regression model, using the characteristics proposed as second factors to consider as variables, obtained an average accuracy (\u03bc) of 96.4% with a standard deviation (\u03c3) of 2.4924, while for F1 a mean (\u03bc) of 91.2% and a standard deviation (\u03c3) of 6.5640. This analysis suggests that among the main factors related to cardiac thoracic pain are: Dyslipidemia, diabetes, chronic kidney failure, hypertension, smoking habits, and troponin levels at the time of admission, which is when the pain occurs. Considering dyslipidemia and diabetes as the main variables due to similar results with machine learning techniques and statistical methods, where 61.95% of the patients who suffer an Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) have diabetes, and the 71.73% have dyslipidemia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph18042155","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,23]],"date-time":"2021-02-23T12:40:16Z","timestamp":1614084016000},"page":"2155","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Assessment of Thoracic Pain Using Machine Learning: A Case Study from Baja California, Mexico"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9373-9431","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Veronica","family":"Rojas-Mendizabal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, CETYS Universidad, Mexicali 21259, Mexico"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8717-7524","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cristi\u00e1n","family":"Castillo-Olea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medicine and Psychology, Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana 22800, Mexico"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexandra","family":"G\u00f3mez-Siono","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, CETYS Universidad, Mexicali 21259, Mexico"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Clemente","family":"Zu\u00f1iga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"General Hospital of Tijuana, Tijuana 22000, Mexico"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization (WHO) (2020, December 15). 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