Sudden Cardiac Death

Children born small for gestational age experienced greater relative risk for sudden cardiac death at a young age compared with those born a normal weight, according to data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

QT-prolonging medications are associated with an increased risk for sudden cardiac death, but research published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that this risk was specifically linked to nonarrhythmic causes.

Healio and Cardiology Today compiled a list of the most-read articles on updates in genetics and CVD published in 2019.

ADHD affects approximately 11% of school-aged children every year, and this rate continues to rise annually. The primary treatment modality includes amphetamines and methylphenidate, with 82.5% of children being prescribed medication.

Sudden cardiac death — the leading cause of sudden death among high school and college athletes in the United States — is not something that can be easily predicted.

October marks Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness on one of the leading causes of death in the U.S.

PARIS — Early use of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator after primary PCI lengthened survival among high-risk patients with STEMI, according to results of the DAPA trial reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

PARIS — Implantable cardioverter defibrillators were underutilized for primary prevention in patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction despite their ability to reduce short- and long-term all-cause mortality, according to a prospective propensity-score matched analysis presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

PARIS — Use of periodic repolarization dynamics, a marker for repolarization instability associated with sympathetic activity, appeared to identify patients whose mortality risk would be reduced with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, according to new data from the EU-CERT-ICD study.