Do coronary heart disease risk factors predict the risk of sudden cardiac death in women?
Coronary heart disease risk factors predict sudden cardiac death in women, suggesting that preventing atherosclerosis or ventricular arrhythmias may reduce SCD incidence.
These prospective data suggest that, as in men, coronary heart disease risk factors predict risk of SCD in women and that SCD is usually an arrhythmic death. Therefore, prevention of atherosclerosis or ventricular arrhythmias may reduce the incidence of SCD in women.
Albert et al. (Mon,) studied this question.