Table 3.

Additional sources cited by the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death

Source	Definitional equivalents of SCA or SCD	Estimated incidence of SCD (no primary data presented)*	Sources for estimate	Publicati on Date
Myerburg et al.(2)	Sudden cardiac death defined as “cardiovascular deaths that are sudden and unexpected.”	300,000	1) Reported “estimates are based on published epidemiologic and clinical data” with two citations: a) Myerburg RJ, Castellanos A. Cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. In: Braunwald E: ed. Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 4th ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders; 1992:756–89; b) Myerburg RJ, Kessler KM, Castellanos A. Sudden cardiac death. Structure, function, and time-dependence of risk. Circulation. 1992;85(Suppl 1):I2–10.	1993
AHA Heart Disease and Stroke(20)	SCD = sudden cardiac death, defined as “sudden cardiac deaths from coronary disease.”	335,000	1) Only sources listed are ICD-9 codes 427.4 and ICD-10 code I49.0*	2004

ICD = International Classification of Diseases

^*No primary data presented in publication.