Heritability of Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest in ESRD

Heritability of Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest in ESRD.

Patients on dialysis are 20 times more likely to have a cardiac arrest compared with the general population. We considered whether inherited factors associate with cardiac arrest among patients on dialysis. From a sample of 647,457 patients on chronic dialysis, we identified 5117 pairs of patients who came from the same family. These patients were each matched to a control subject from the same...

Population Movement and Sudden Cardiac Arrest Location Running title: Marijon et al.; High-Risk Public Areas for Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Eloi Marijon, MD, PhD; Wulfran Bougouin, MD; Muriel Tafflet, PhD; Nicole Karam, MD; Daniel Jost, MD; Lionel Lamhaut, MD; Frankie Beganton, MS; Patricia Pelloux, MS; Hervé Degrange, MD; Guillaume Beal, MS; Jean-Pierre Tourtier, MD, PhD; Albert Alain Hagege, MD, PhD; Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, MD; Michel Desnos, MD; Florence Dumas, MD, PhD; Christian Spaulding, MD, PhD; David S. Celermajer, PhD, FRACP;...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Sudden cardiac arrest during sports.

Exercise can trigger an acute cardiac event which may precipitate sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). On the other hand, exercise is important for physical fitness and prevention of cardiovascular disease, and the medical community should therefore inform the general public of the health benefits of sports and exercise. At the same time, the public are exposed to alarmist mass media coverage of athlet...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Athletic Medicine.

OBJECTIVE: To emphasize the importance of decreasing the response time by a trained target responder to increase the survival rate among athletes experiencing sudden cardiac arrest at an athletic event. BACKGROUND: Death due to sudden cardiac arrest that is witnessed is preventable in many cases. However, most people who experience this condition die because of a prolonged response time from on...