%0 Journal Article
%T Epidemiolog¨ªa de la muerte s¨²bita card¨ªaca
%A Ochoa Montes
%A Luis Alberto
%A Gonz¨¢lez Lugo
%A Mileidys
%A Tamayo Vicente
%A Nidia D
%A G¨®mez de Haz
%A H¨¦ctor J
%A Correa Azahares
%A Dennis P
%A Migu¨¦lez Nodarse
%A Ram¨®n
%A Fern¨¢ndez-Britto Rodr¨ªguez
%A Jos¨¦ E
%J Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiolog£¿-a
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X objectives: to describe the epidemiology of the sudden cardiac death in health areas from the arroyo naranjo municipality in la habana during 2000-2004. methods: an epidemiologic study was conducted in 210 000 inhabitants from the health areas of the arroyo naranjo municipality ("juli¨¢n grimau", reparto el¨¦ctrico, p¨¢rraga, reparto capri, los pinos and managua) in la habana with a 5-years follow-up. the cuban group for study of cardiac sudden death, the research center and references of atherosclerosis of la habana and the "julio trigo l¨®pez" university of medical sciences took part. the sucades i (sudden cardiac death study) included 5 098 deceased from natural death with application of cardiac sudden death criteria according to the world health organization (who). results: from the total of study deaths, the 9.3 % was of sudden way. the 50.6 % of events were in the male sex, in ages from 60-74 years (40.1 %). the p¨¢rraga place was the more affected (23.4 %). the victim's home was the place of occurrence in the 35.0 % of events. the myocardial acute infarction was confirmed in the 58.4 % of cases. conclusions: the cardiac sudden death due to coronary disease and the rhythm alterations was more frequent in men aged from 45 in a close relationship with the atherosclerosis progression. it is manifested in the victim's home when event is produced unexpectedly.
%K cardiac sudden death.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1561-30032012000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en