Risk Factors of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: Multiple-Year Community-Wide Assessment
Authors' conclusion
Sports was a trigger of SCA in a minority of cases, and, in most patients, SCA occurred without warning symptoms. Standard cardiovascular risk factors were found in over half of patients
Study context
- Population
- Subjects with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) aged 5–34 years, Portland, Oregon, 2002–2015of 3775 SCAs, all ages
- Participants
- 186 subjects
- Exposure
- Sports-related vs nonsports SCA
- Sports-relatedn = 26
- Nonsportsn = 160reference
- Outcome
- Prevalence of warning signs, sports trigger and CV risk factors in SCA in the young
Methodological detailscommunity-based, Portland, Oregon metropolitan area
- Community-based
- Portland, Oregon metropolitan area
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Warning signs before SCA
29%
Sports as a trigger
26
14%
≥1 established CV risk factors
58%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Survival from cardiac arrest
2.5-fold · P = 0.05
Survival from cardiac arrest
- Sports-related SCA more likely to present with shockable rhythms
Sports-related share of SCA by age
- Aged ≤18
- 39%
- Aged 19 to 25
- 13%
- Aged 25 to 34
- 7%
Most common SCA-related conditions
- Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome
- 31%
- CAD
- 22%
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- 14%
Original publication
Risk Factors of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: Multiple-Year Community-Wide Assessment. Circulation. Published 21 December 2017. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it