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The incidence of sudden death in Hong Kong was found to be 1.8 per 100,000 population, which is significantly lower than the estimated 18 per 100,000 in the United States.
Absolute Event Rate: 1.8% vs 18%
The incidence of sudden death in Hong Kong is significantly lower than in Western countries, suggesting a potential natural protection against malignant ventricular arrhythmias among the Chinese population.
Sudden death is a major health care problem that affects thousands of lives everyday worldwide. In the past decades, western epidemiological and scientific data on sudden death had allowed better understanding of the underlying etiology and enabled development of strategies in secondary prevention of out-of-hospital sudden death. Despite their large population, Asian countries have relatively little published data on sudden death.
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Lee et al. (2001) conducted an editorial in Sudden death (n=1,204). Living in Hong Kong vs. Western populations (United States) was evaluated on Incidence of sudden death per 100,000 population. The incidence of sudden death in Hong Kong was found to be 1.8 per 100,000 population, which is significantly lower than the estimated 18 per 100,000 in the United States.
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