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Actuarial survival rates for freedom from death of any cause and combined end point defined as total deaths plus occurrence of fast symptomatic ventricular tachyarrhythmias (> 240 bpm with presyncope or syncope). Benefit from ICD implantation is estimated as the difference between total mortality and the combined end point (p = 0.007).
