Sudden Death After Myocardial Infarction

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Sudden cardiac death is a devastating complication of myocardial infarction (MI).1 Long-term population studies outlining the incidence of sudden cardiac death after MI in the community are decades old.2-6 Since the publication of these reports, the in-hospital mortality after MI has decreased substantially because of evidence-based therapies, yielding a growing number of MI survivors potentially at risk for sudden cardiac death.7-11 Incidence and predictors of sudden cardiac death after MI recently have been examined in large clinical trials12-14 and among patients from tertiary care centers.15-18 However, these selected patients may not be representative of patients in the community.19 Thus, in an era when the long-term prognosis after MI has greatly improved, community-based data reflecting the contemporary risk of sudden cardiac death after MI are lacking.

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