Current burden of sudden cardiac death: Multiple source surveillance versus retrospective death certificate-based review in a large U.S. community
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Current burden of sudden cardiac death: multiple source surveillance versus retrospective death certificate-based review in a large U.S. community.
OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the annual incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the general population using a prospective approach. To assess the validity of retrospective surveillance, a simultaneous comparison was made with a death certificate-based method of determining SCD incidence. BACKGROUND Accurate surveillance and characterization of SCD in the general population is likely ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.06.029