TY - JOUR
T1 - Sudden Cardiac Death without Warning
AU - Epstein, S. E.
AU - Quyyumi, A. A.
AU - Bonow, R. O.
PY - 1989/8/3
Y1 - 1989/8/3
N2 - Sudden death or acute and extensive myocardial infarction are common presenting manifestations of coronary artery disease.1,2 In attempting to determine whether screening tests can identify persons at risk of sudden death, three studies in which asymptomatic subjects were followed prospectively after having undergone electrocardiographic exercise stress testing demonstrated a fascinating but disturbing fact.3 4 5 6 As expected, asymptomatic subjects with normal results on stress tests had a much lower mortality rate than asymptomatic subjects with abnormal results. However, the very large low-risk group with normal responses to exercise testing (constituting about 95 percent of the entire cohort) contained, in absolute terms, the….
AB - Sudden death or acute and extensive myocardial infarction are common presenting manifestations of coronary artery disease.1,2 In attempting to determine whether screening tests can identify persons at risk of sudden death, three studies in which asymptomatic subjects were followed prospectively after having undergone electrocardiographic exercise stress testing demonstrated a fascinating but disturbing fact.3 4 5 6 As expected, asymptomatic subjects with normal results on stress tests had a much lower mortality rate than asymptomatic subjects with abnormal results. However, the very large low-risk group with normal responses to exercise testing (constituting about 95 percent of the entire cohort) contained, in absolute terms, the….
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198908033210511
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198908033210511
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 2747773
AN - SCOPUS:0024363577
VL - 321
SP - 320
EP - 324
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 5
ER -