The epidemiology of tachyfibrillation in sudden death.
Although death occurs suddenly in coronary heart disease, it is associated with a prior history of cardiac disease in 85% and with prodromal symptoms in 73.8% of the patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest outside the hospital. Sudden death was the first expression of coronary heart disease in 3.6% of the patient population. The fact that out-of-hospital sudden death is usually secondary to myocardial infarction and ischemia is supported by this clinical study and is suggested by other clinical and pathological studies of individuals dying suddenly.
D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000401:mortality; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000401:mortality