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Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) is a sudden unexpected death of adolescents and adults caused by a cardiac arrest. However, the exact cause of the cardiac arrest, and thus the exact cause of death, is unknown. These deaths occur mainly during sleep or at rest. [7] One type of conduction defect known as Brugada syndrome can be ...
Brittle-cornea syndrome is characterized by the progressive thinning of the cornea, early-onset progressive keratoglobus or keratoconus, nearsightedness, hearing loss, and blue sclerae. [5] [36] Classic symptoms, such as hypermobile joints and hyperelastic skin, are also seen often. [37] It has two types. Type 1 occurs due to variations in the ...
Sudden infant death syndrome 0.6: 0.08%: ... A study suggests the global "mean loss of life expectancy" ... ~9.9% deaths of adults aged 40 to 69 years and ~7.8% ...
Based on death certificates, sudden cardiac death accounts for about 20% of all deaths in the United States. [151] [152] In the United States, approximately 326,000 cases of out-of-hospital and 209,000 cases of IHCA occur among adults annually, which works out to be an incidence of approximately 110.8 per 100,000 adults per year. [9] [81] [151]
Sturge–Weber syndrome; Subclavian steal syndrome; Sudden death syndrome; Sudden infant death syndrome; Sudden wealth syndrome; Sugarman syndrome; Sulfonamide hypersensitivity syndrome; Summer penile syndrome; Sundowning; Superior mesenteric artery syndrome; Superior orbital fissure syndrome; Superior vena cava syndrome
Nearly 90% of adults over age 20 in the United States are at risk of developing heart disease, an alarming new study suggests.. While the unexpectedly high number doesn't mean that the majority of ...
After declining from 2002 to 2012, stroke death rates for middle-aged adults increased 7% between 2012 and 2019, and increased an additional 12% through 2021, the CDC found.
Brugada syndrome was described as a cause for the sudden unexplained cardiac death syndrome seen in Thai men in 1997. [50] The first genetic mutations affecting the SCN5A gene associated with the syndrome were identified by their brother Ramon Brugada in 1998, [ 13 ] with many more mutations affecting at least 19 genes subsequently identified ...