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How do age and sex impact the risk of sudden cardiovascular death versus non-sudden cardiovascular death following myocardial infarction?
How do age and sex impact the risk of sudden cardiovascular death versus non-sudden cardiovascular death following myocardial infarction?
While the relative risk of sudden cardiovascular death compared to non-sudden death is highest in younger post-MI patients, the absolute risk is much higher in older patients, and male sex independently increases SCD risk.
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Supports age- and sex-stratified SCD risk assessment post-MI; hypothesis-generating for targeted prevention trials.
Steen Z. Abildstrøm (2002) studied this question.
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