Family history of cardiovascular disease and death in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

How a family history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) or death influences the risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is unknown. This study examined the prevalence of family histories of CVD and death in patients with OHCA and if these factors were associated with OHCA.

Methods

Patients (<70 years) with OHCA's of presumed cardiac origin and available kinship information were identified from the Danish Cardiac Arrest Register (2001-2014). Patients with OHCA were matched 1:4 (age, sex, and number of identifiable parents) with individuals from the background population (controls) to compare family histories (events in first-degree relatives before OHCA) of CVD, all-cause death, cardiovascular death, and premature death (death <60 years). In conditional multivariable l

SUBMITTER: Gylling M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11850785 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature