Income and education had an inverse relationship with the risk for sudden cardiac death that was not explained by modifiable risk factors, researchers reported.
“Sudden death of cardiac causes is among the leading causes of death in the general population and predicting who is at high risk is difficult,” Peder Emil Warming, MD, of the department cardiology at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, and colleagues wrote in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. “Finding people or groups at high risk is important to improve prevention.”
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