Sex and Racial Differences in Autopsy-Defined Causes of Presumed Sudden Cardiac Death

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2021 May;14(5):e009393. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.009393. Epub 2021 Apr 9.

Authors

Zian H Tseng¹, Satvik Ramakrishna¹, James W Salazar², Eric Vittinghoff³, Jeffrey E Olgin¹, Ellen Moffatt⁴

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (Z.H.T., S.R., J.E.O.), University of California, San Francisco.
² Department of Medicine (J.W.S.), University of California, San Francisco.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (E.V.), University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, San Francisco, CA (E.M.).

Abstract

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Keywords: arrhythmias, cardiac; autopsy; death, sudden, cardiac; epidemiology; heart arrest.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Asian*
Autopsy
Black or African American*
Death, Sudden, Cardiac / epidemiology*
Death, Sudden, Cardiac / ethnology
Female
Hispanic or Latino*
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
Race Factors
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
San Francisco / epidemiology
Sex Factors
White People*
Young Adult

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