Women Have a Lower Prevalence of Structural Heart Disease as a Precursor to Sudden Cardiac Arrest. The Ore-SUDS (Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 2006-2011

  Chugh, Sumeet S ^a   Uy Evanado, Audrey ^a   Teodorescu, Carmen ^a   Reinier, Kyndaron ^a   Mariani, Ronald ^a   Gunson, Karen ^b   Jui, Jonathan ^b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; death, sudden; ejection fraction; population; risk stratification; sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 71849084610     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.07.038     Document Type: Article

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