Population
502 patients with new-onset syncope across 3 age groups: middle-aged, older, and elderly.
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Cardiogenic syncope signals elevated cardiovascular mortality risk in elderly patients; hypothesis-generating for etiology-specific evaluation pending prospective data.
In patients with new-onset syncope, the etiology remains unexplained more frequently in the elderly, and cardiogenic syncope is associated with a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular mortality.
Roussanov et al. (2007) studied this question.
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