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Predicting sudden cardiac death Which patients recovering from a myocardial infarction are most likely to benefit from an implantable cardioverter defibrillator? Despite information on demographics, medical history, clinical characteristics, biomarkers, electrocardiography, echocardiography, and car...

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Published inBMJ (Online) Vol. 387; p. q2592
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London British Medical Journal Publishing Group 28.11.2024
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Subjects
Blood pressure
Children
Determinism
Echocardiography
EKG
Endocarditis
Heart
Heart attacks
Hypertension
Magnetic resonance imaging
Minerva
Myocardial infarction
Patients
Venous access
Young adults
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Summary:Predicting sudden cardiac death Which patients recovering from a myocardial infarction are most likely to benefit from an implantable cardioverter defibrillator? Despite information on demographics, medical history, clinical characteristics, biomarkers, electrocardiography, echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, it was impossible to predict with any accuracy which patients would experience a sudden cardiac death. Tracking of blood pressure from childhood to adulthood On the subject of hypertension, a longitudinal study from Finland, which examined participants nine times from childhood to mid adult life, reports that those with elevated blood pressure as children or adolescents were twice as likely to have raised blood pressure or hypertension as adults.
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ISSN:1756-1833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.q2592