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Declining Trend of Sudden Cardiac Death in Younger Individuals: A 20-Year Nationwide Study

Circulation

We provide contemporary nationwide estimates of the temporal trends of SCD in young individuals (135 years of age) from 2000 through 2019 and correlate these trends to changes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patterns, rates of inherited cardiac diseases, and implantations of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD).METHODS:All