exercise-induced cardiac arrest in a

The cardiovascular mortality rate among dialysis patients is approximately 9 percent per year.1 Even after stratification by age, gender, race, and the presence or absence of diabetes, rates remain10 to 20 times higher than in the general population.2 The prevalence of coronary artery disease and left ventricular hypertrophy is 40 percent and 75 percent, respectively, in dialysis patients (CKD stage 5). The high burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in incident dialysis patients suggests that CVD begins during the earlier stages

This editorial refers to ‘Major regional disparities in out-comes after sudden cardiac arrest during sports’†, by E. Marijon et al., on page 3632 and ‘Exercise-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the general population: inci-dence and prognosis’‡, by J. Berdowski et al., on page 3616 Exercise

This editorial refers to ‘Major regional disparities in out-comes after sudden cardiac arrest during sports’, by E. Marijon et al. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht282 and ‘Exercise-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the general population: incidence and prognosis’, by J. Berdowski et al. doi:10

Castellanos A: Antiarrhythmic drug therapy in survivors of prehos-pital cardiac arrest. Comparison of effects on chronic ventricular arrhythmias and recurrent cardiac arrest. Circulation 59: 855, 1979 24. Cobb LA, Hallstrom AP: Mortality in survivors of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.701243

Right Ventricular Dysplasia. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysptasia (ARVD) is a predisposing factor for sport-related cardiac arrest (CA), sudden cardiac death (SD). and life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT). The aim of this study was the assessment of athletes with ARVD

, we investigated the Mg- and Zn-status of patients with sudden respiratory distress and cardiac arrest who had survived resuscitation attempts or a near-SUDS episode (N-SUDS). The following subjects were enrolled: 12 N-SUDS inhabitants of rural Northeast Thailand (rural group 1, R1), 13 rural