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. 2010 Jun 1;6:387–397. doi: 10.2147/vhrm.s10358

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Figure 1

Heart rate and mortality in healthy individuals: Relative risk of death from any cause, nonsudden death from myocardial infarction (MI), and sudden death from MI in 5713 people without known or suspected heart disease. Differences among quintiles with respect to risk of death from any cause, P < 0.001; nonsudden death from cardiac causes, P = 0.02; sudden death from cardiac causes, P < 0.001. Copyright @ 2005. Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from Jouven X, Empana JP, Schwartz PJ, Desnos M, Courbon D, Ducimetiere P. Heart-rate profile during exercise as a predictor of sudden death. N Engl J Med. 2005;352(19):1951–1958.