Marburg Heart Score (CAD in Primary-Care Chest Pain)
Marburg Heart Score (0–5) ruling coronary artery disease in or out as the cause of chest pain in primary care; ≤ 2 makes CAD unlikely.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Female ≥ 65 or male ≥ 55
- Yes
- Known vascular disease
- Yes
- Pain worse with exercise
- Yes
Result: Marburg Heart Score 3 — higher risk (≈ 23%), warrants further evaluation.
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What the result means
- Bands
- 0–2 CAD unlikely (≈ 3%; high negative predictive value); ≥ 3 (≈ 23%) warrants further evaluation. A primary-care rule-out aid.
What you enter
- Female ≥ 65 or male ≥ 55
- Known vascular disease
- Pain worse with exercise
- Pain NOT reproducible by palpation
- Patient assumes the pain is cardiac
How this is calculated
- Criteria
- five, each 1 point: female ≥ 65 or male ≥ 55, known vascular disease, pain worse with exercise, pain not reproducible by palpation, patient assumes the pain is cardiac.
Bösner S, Haasenritter J, Becker A, et al. Ruling out coronary artery disease in primary care: development and validation of a simple prediction rule. CMAJ. 2010;182(12):1295-1300. Read the source ↗
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