Sudden cardiac death in the young: a strategy for prevention by targeted evaluation.

Abstract excerpt

The annual incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the general population is estimated as 1 in a 1,000. Since survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are poor, primary prevention is key to reducing the burden of SCD in the community. Prominent causes of SCD include ischaemic heart disease, anomalous coronary arteries, and the primary myocardial diseases: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated...

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• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Echocardiography
• Electrocardiography
• Exercise Test
• Incidence
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging