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Sudden cardiac death is a rare event in healthy young adults that is usually associated with strenuous physical exertion and underlying structural heart disease, most frequently myocarditis. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To determine the incidence, clinical circumstances, and underlying structural causes of sudden cardiac death in healthy, medically screened military recruits during basic training.

November 21, 1986JAMA

Sudden Cardiac Death in Air Force Recruits

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1,606,167 US Air Force healthy, medically screened recruits undergoing a 42-day basic training period…

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42 days

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MPMatthew PhillipsThe University of Texas at Dallas

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SCD remains rare during military training and often myocarditis-related; observational data leaves open targeted screening trials.

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To determine the incidence, clinical circumstances, and underlying structural causes of sudden cardiac death in healthy, medically screened military recruits during basic training.
Reviewed clinical and autopsy records of 1,606,167 US Air Force recruits (90% male, aged 17 to 28 years) during a 42-day basic training period from 1965 to 1985.
Identified and analyzed all sudden cardiac deaths and compared cardiac findings with 32 nonsudden, noncardiac deaths during the same period.
Nineteen sudden cardiac deaths occurred over the 20-year period, with underlying structural heart disease identified in 16 cases (all male) and no anatomic cause found in 3 cases.
Strenuous physical exertion was associated with 17 of the 19 sudden cardiac deaths (event rate of 0.017 deaths per 50,000 exercise-hours), with myocarditis representing the most frequent underlying etiology.

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Population

1,606,167 US Air Force healthy, medically screened recruits (90% male; 17 to 28 years old) undergoing a 42-day basic training period between 1965 and 1985.

Outcome

Sudden cardiac death and underlying etiology based on clinical and autopsy recordshard clinical

Sudden cardiac death is a rare event in healthy young adults undergoing military training, is usually associated with exertion, and is most frequently caused by underlying myocarditis.

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Matthew Phillips (1986) studied this question.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Myocarditis Valvular heart disease

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