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Table 1 Deaths classified as diseases of the circulatory system

From: Sudden cardiac death in the young (5-39 years) in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

  

Age

  

15 - 19

20 - 24

25 - 29

30 - 34

35 - 39

15-39

Men

I21 Acute myocardial infarction

1

 

2

 

8

11

I33 Acute and subacute endocarditis

   

1

1

2

I42 Cardiomyopathy

 

2

1

 

2

5

I46 Cardiac arrest

1

  

1

3

5

I48 Atrial fibrillation and flutter

  

1

  

1

I49 Other cardiac arrhythmias

   

2

1

3

I50 Heart failure

 

1

  

1

2

I51 Complications and ill-defined descriptions of heart disease

1

1

  

1

3

Women

I21 Acute myocardial infarction

  

1

  

1

I40 Acute myocarditis

1

1

1

  

3

I46 Cardiac arrest

 

1

   

1

I49 Other cardiac arrhythmias

 

1

  

1

2

I50 Heart failure

   

1

 

1

Total

 

4

7

6

5

18

40

  1. Causes of death (number of cases) between 2000 and 2007 classified as diseases of the circulatory system that may potentially be sudden cardiac deaths among individuals from 5 to 39 years of age in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. There were no deaths under the age of 15 (data received from SCRIS).