Sudden neurologic death masquerading as out-of-hospital sudden cardiac death
Population
335 incident WHO criteria sudden cardiac deaths captured through active surveillance of consecutive…
Design
Cohort
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Discussion
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Implication
May warrant autopsy confirmation before SCD labeling; leaves open antithrombotic-stroke links in observational data.
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Population
335 incident WHO criteria sudden cardiac deaths (SCDs) captured through active surveillance of consecutive out-of-hospital deaths in San Francisco that underwent systematic evaluation including full autopsy.
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Outcome
Frequency of and risk factors for out-of-hospital sudden neurologic deaths among apparent sudden cardiac deathshard clinical
Sudden neurologic death accounts for 5.4% of apparent out-of-hospital sudden cardiac deaths, suggesting that low autopsy rates may lead to systematic misclassification of SCDs.
Cite This Study
Moffatt et al. (2016) studied this question.