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Episode # 208: Sudden Cardiac Death in Sport

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Is It Possible to Prevent a Sudden Cardiac Death?

The estimated prevalence for the anomalous origin of coronary artery is 0.44%. This would result in about 40, 4,400 people per million being diagnosed with this potentially dangerous abnormality. If we use data from the military setting that reported amongst 6.3 million recruits, there were 21 sudden cardiac deaths related to this condition. We have no idea if these deaths may or may not be preventable. It might sound like, oh, sure, if we're talking about exercise related sudden cardiac death then not exercising is the way to prevent it. That's an assumption. You have to show that.

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