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CDC: COVID Vax Not Linked to Sudden Deaths in Young Adults

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- The hunt for a signal of excess sudden cardiac deaths among young people after COVID-19 vaccination left Oregon health officials empty-handed, they reported. Investigators searched death certificates for Oregon residents 16.

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Incidence and Autopsy Rates for Sudden Cardiac Death in Northern Finland

HeartRhythm

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) has an estimated annual incidence of 1 per 1000, based on epidemiological studies from death certificates. However, up to 40% of sudden deaths have been determined to be caused by extracardiac causes in autopsy studies.1,2

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Sudden cardiac death in psychiatric patients: for whom the bell tolls?

Heart BMJ

Psychiatric patients, especially those with severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, have significantly shorter life expectancy and higher risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) compared with the general population. Of the 6002 SCD.

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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

Dr. Anish Koka

The occurrence of potential cardiovascular events of interest triggered collection of a full dossier containing all relevant and available source documents, including hospital notes, laboratory, ECG and imaging data, procedure reports, resuscitation or code summaries, death certificates, and autopsy reports.

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Nationwide burden of sudden cardiac death among patients with a psychiatric disorder

Heart BMJ

Previous research has shown that there is a fourfold increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) among the young. Objective To investigate the incidence of SCD in patients with psychiatric disorders aged 18–90 years in the Danish population by systematically reviewing all deaths in 1 year.