title: Frequency of Brugada-type ECG pattern (Brugada sign) in an apparently healthy young population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the frequency and demographic features of subjects with Brugada-Type ECG pattern in apparently healthy young population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross sectional descriptive study.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted at School of Nursing Hayatabad Medical Complex, Public Health School, Post Graduate College of Nursing, Qurtaba College, Brain's Post Graduate College and Gandhara Institute of Science and Technology Hayatabad Peshawar from June 2006 to May 2007. A total of one thousand one hundred (1100) subjects, 712 males and 388 females, were included in the study. A prospective analysis of the eleven hundred electrocardiograms (ECG) of healthy young subjects in the above institutions were included in this study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Brugada-Type ECG pattern frequency was 0.8% (nine out of one thousand one hundred healthy subjects). Five cases (0.45%) were observed between 16 to 20 years of age and four cases (0.36%) were observed in 21 years and above. Out of total of nine cases of Brugada-Type ECG pattern (Brugada Sign), seven were males (0.6%) and two were females (0.2%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Frequency of Brugada-Type ECG pattern was 0.8% in the apparently healthy young students in Hayatabad Peshawar.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Post Graduate Medical Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan. drabdulwajed@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wajed
authors.forename: Zahid
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Aslam
authors.forename: Syed Farhat
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Abbas
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Irfan
authors.forename: Kamran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bangash
authors.forename: Sher
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rehman
authors.forename: Faisal
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Amin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D053840:Brugada Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010154:Pakistan / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult