Comparison of sudden and nonsudden coronary deaths in the United States

Circulation

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2033-2036

  Escobedo, Luis G ^a   Zack, Matthew M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; death, sudden; mortality; smoking

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030013031     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.11.2033     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Kuller LH, Talbott EO, Robinson C. Environmental and psychosocial determinants of sudden death. Circulation. 1987;76(suppl I):I-177-I-184.
2. Cupples LA, Gagnon DR, Kannel WB. Long- and short-term risk of sudden coronary death. Circulation. 1992;85(suppl I):I-11-1-18.
3. Gillum RF. Sudden coronary death in the United States: 1980-1985. Circulation. 1989;79:756-765.
4. Baum RS, Alvarez H III, Cobb LA. Survival after resuscitation from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation. Circulation. 1974;50: 1231-1235.
5. Myerburg RJ, Kessler KM, Zaman L, Conde CA, Castellanos A. Survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest. JAMA. 1982;247:1485-1490.
6. Public Health Service. The Health Consequences of Smoking: Cardiovascular Disease - A Report of the Surgeon General, 1983. Rockville, Md: Public Health Service; 1983. US Dept of Health and Human Services publication (PHS)84-50204.
7. Seeman I, Poe GS, McLaughlin JK. Design of the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey: considerations on collecting data on decedents. Public Health Rep. 1989;104:183-188.
8. Hollman HW, ed. Current Population Reports: Population Estimates and Projections - U.S. Population Estimates by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1980 to 1988. Washington, DC: Bureau of the Census; 1990. US Dept of Commerce series P-25, No. 1045.
9. Kominski R, ed. Current Population Reports: Population Report - Educational Attainment in the United States: March 1987 and 1986. Washington, DC: Bureau of the Census; 1988. US Dept of Commerce series P-20, No. 428.
10. Rothman KJ. Modem Epidemiology. Boston, Mass: Little Brown and Co; 1986:41-44.
11. Research Triangle Institute. SUDAAN: Professional Software for Survey Data Analysis. US Dept of Health and Human Services publication.
12. Hallstrom AP, Cobb LA, Ray R. Smoking as a risk factor for recurrence of sudden cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med. 1986;314: 271-275.
13. Myerburg RJ, Kessler KM, Castellanos A. Sudden cardiac death: epidemiology, transient risk, and intervention assessment. Ann Intern Med. 1993;119:1187-1197.
14. Packer M. Lack of relation between ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in patients with chronic heart failure. Circulation. 1992;85(suppl I):I-50-I-56.
15. Messerli FH, Ventura HO, Elizardi DJ, Dunn FG, Frohlich ED. Hypertension and sudden death: increased ventricular ectopic activity in left ventricular hypertrophy. Am J Med. 1984;77:18-22.
16. Kannel WB, Cupples LA, D'Agostino RB, Stokes J III. Hypertension, antihypertensive treatment, and sudden coronary death: the Framingham Study. Hypertension. 1988;11(suppl II):II-45-II-50.
17. Lee MH, Borhani NO, Kuller LH. Validation of reported myocardial infarction mortality in blacks and whites: a report from the Community Cardiovascular Surveillance Program. Ann Epidemiol. 1990;1:1-12.
18. Myerburg R, Castellanos A. Cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. In: Braunwald E, ed. Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders; 1992: 742-777.
19. Kolonel LN, Hirohata T, Nomura AMY. Adequacy of survey data collected from substitute respondents. Am J Epidemiol. 1977;106: 476-484.
20. Herrmann N. Retrospective information from questionnaires, I: comparability of primary respondents and their next-of-kin. Am J Epidemiol. 1985;121:937-947.
21. Pickle LW, Brown LM, Blot WJ. Information available from surrogate respondents in case-control interview studies. Am J Epidemiol. 1983;118:99-108.
22. Rahe RH, Romo M, Bennett L, Sutanen P. Recent life changes, myocardial infarction, and abrupt coronary death: studies in Helsinki. Arch Intern Med. 1974;133:221-228.
23. Baim DS. Intervention catheterization techniques: percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty, valvuloplasty, and related procedures. In: Braunwald E, ed. Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders; 1992: 1379-1394.
24. Pasternak RC, Braunwald E, Sobel BE. Acute myocardial infarction. In: Braunwald E, ed. Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders; 1992: 1222-1313.
25. Weaver WD, Cobb LA, Hallstrom AP, Copass MD, Ray R, Emery M, Fahrenbruch C. Considerations for improving survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Ann Emerg Med. 1986;15:1181-1186.
26. Eisenberg MS, Horwood BT, Cummins RO, Reynolds-Haertle R, Hearne TR. Cardiac arrest and resuscitation: a tale of 29 cities. Ann Emerg Med. 1990;19:179-186.
27. Emergency Cardiac Care Committee and Subcommittees, American Heart Association. Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care. JAMA. 1992;268: 2171-2302.