[Sudden death due to acute coronary insufficiency].
The study was conducted in the course of 2 years in accordance with the programme of myocardial infarction register of all mortality cases among the inhabitants of one of the Moscow districts. In conformity with the criteria recommended by the WHO Expert Committee, general figures of sudden death incidence at the age of 20 to 64 years comprised 80.3--76.2 and 32.7--34.5 per 100,000 males and females, respectively, during the 1st and 2nd year of observation. Autopsies performed in 89.5% of the mortality cases established that only in 39.8% of the cases death ensued in the presence of fresh foci of necrosis in the myocardium, while in the rest no myocardial infarction was found. In an overwhelming majority of the dying patients severe stenoses or occlusions of the coronary arteries were seen, and only 13% had no stenoses. However, the latter group showed fresh necroses or postinfarction cicatrices in the myocardium. The obtained data indicate that sudden death occupies an important place in the structure of mortality in ischaemic heart disease. It has been demonstrated that no reduction of general mortality due to myocardial infarction is possible without effective measures against this kind of death.
D000328:Adult; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D003645:Death, Sudden; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009031:Moscow; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis
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