Acute cardiac care & resuscitationCase-control study
Lifestyle phenotypes associated with sudden cardiac arrest in the community: a multicentre case-control study
- Case-control study
- prospective
- multicentre
- frequency-matched by age, sex and residential area
- latent class analysis
Authors' conclusion
Cluster-derived lifestyle phenotypes were associated with differing odds of SCA.
Study context
- Population
- OHCA of presumed cardiac aetiology and community controls, South Korea, 2017–20231,466 cases · 2,619 controls
- Comparison
- Lifestyle phenotypes vs reference class C2
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
SCA
Each group vs C2Odds ratio (95% CI)
C1
1.48(1.13–1.94)
C3
1.95(1.60–2.39)
C4
8.93(6.75–11.81)
C5
15.20(11.19–20.64)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
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Original publication
Lifestyle phenotypes associated with sudden cardiac arrest in the community: a multicentre case-control study. Eur J Prev Cardiol. Published 4 September 2026. doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwag462
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it