Clinical Characteristics and Circumstances of Death in the Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome
Population
967 consecutive cases of sudden cardiac death with a normal heart at postmortem, median age 29 years, 61%…
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Implication
SADS deaths predominate at rest/sleep without altering practice; leaves open activity-, sex-, and age-specific triggers for prospective validation.
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Population
967 consecutive cases of sudden cardiac death with a normal heart at postmortem (sudden arrhythmic death syndrome), median age 29 years, 61% male, from across the United Kingdom.
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Outcome
Circumstances of death (sleep/rest vs exercise/emotional stress) and demographicshard clinical
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome most commonly occurs at rest or during sleep, and up to 90% of victims have no preceding symptoms or recognized risk factors.
Cite This Study
Mellor et al. (2014) studied this question.