- ACS
acute coronary syndrome
- AM
adrenomedullin
- AMI
acute myocardial infarction
- ANP
atrial natriuretic peptide
- AUC
area under the curve
- AVP
arginine vasopressin
- BNP
B-type natriuretic peptide
- CK
creatine kinase
- CK-MB
creatine kinase MB isoenzyme
- CRP
C-reactive protein
- cTnI
cardiac troponin I
- cTnT
cardiac troponin T
- CTU
Clinical Trials Unit
- CV
coefficient of variation
- ECG
electrocardiogram
- ED
emergency department
- EDTA
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
- FABP
fatty acid-binding protein
- GDF15
growth differentiation factor 15
- GRACE
Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events
- H-FABP
heart-type fatty acid-binding protein
- HTA
Health Technology Assessment
- ICER
incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
- IL
interleukin
- IL-1
interleukin 1
- IL-1β
interleukin 1 beta
- IL-33
interleukin 33
- IL-6
interleukin 6
- IL-6R
interleukin-6 receptor
- IMA
ischaemia-modified albumin
- IQR
interquartile range
- MACE
major adverse cardiac event
- MMP
matrix metalloproteinase
- MPO
myeloperoxidase
- NICE
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- NSTEMI
non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
- NTproBNP
N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide
- NYHA
New York Heart Association
- PAPP-A
pregnancy-associated plasma protein A
- QALY
quality-adjusted life-year
- RATPAC
Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers
- RATPAC-CBE
Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers – Contemporary Biomarker Evaluation
- RCV
relative change value
- ROC
receiver operating characteristic
- sIL-6R
soluble interleukin-6 receptor
- STEMI
ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
- TIMP
tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase
- TnC
troponin C
- TnI
troponin I
- TnT
troponin T
- WHO
World Health Organization
All abbreviations that have been used in this report are listed here unless the abbreviation is well known (e.g. NHS), or it has been used only once, or it is a non-standard abbreviation used only in figures/tables/appendices in which case the abbreviation is defined in the figure legend or at the end of the table.