Public health burden of sudden cardiac death in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a leading cause of death in the United States, but the relative public health burden is unknown. We estimated the burden of premature death from SCD and compared it with other diseases.

Methods and results

Analyses were based on the following data sources (using most recent sources that provided appropriately stratified data): (1) leading causes of death among men and women from 2009 US death certificate reporting; (2) individual cancer mortality rates from 2008 death certificate reporting from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries; (3) county, state, and national population data for 2009 from the US Census Bureau; and (4) SCD rates from the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study (SUDS) p

SUBMITTER: Stecker EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4041478 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature