Sudden Cardiac Death
Heart enlargement is a common cause of sudden death in young people
Published in Health and Medicine Week, June 21st, 2004
Dr. Perry Elliott from University College, London, and Professor William McKenna from The Heart Hospital, London, stated in the June 5, 2004, issue of the Lancet that this genetically transmitted disease affects 1 in 500 adults and is the commonest cause of sudden death in otherwise fit young people and athletes.
The condition results from an abnormal heart muscle protein, and usually becomes detectable by the completion of the pubertal...
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