ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND SUDDEN-DEATH

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 53  (5-6) , 527-530
Abstract
The prevalence of complicated and calcified lesions and coronary stenosis, the mean heart weight, and the extent of atherosclerosis in the aorta and coronary arteries were greater in the sudden heart death group than in the high atherosclerosis group. In the other sudden death group, which included sudden deaths without myocardial infarction or coronary occlusion, all of the variables, except heart weight, were lower than in the low atherosclerosis group and were close to those in the standardized average atherosclerosis group. The mean heart weight in the other sudden death group was lower than in the sudden heart death group but significantly higher than in the 3 reference atherosclerosis groups. [The 5 cities studied were: Malmo, Sweden; Prague, Czechoslovakia; and Ryazan, Yalta and Tallin, USSR.].