Table 3.
Underlying cardiac disease by age group
| Underlying cardiac disease, n (%) | Age group, n (%) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <10 years | 10 to 19 | 20 to 29 | 30 to 39 | 40 to 49 | 50 to 59 | 60 to 69 | 70 years or more | |||||||||
| Cardiomyopathy | 1 | (100) | 6 | (42.9) | 12 | (44.4) | 22 | (44.0) | 50 | (42.0) | 93 | (32.4) | 111 | (33.0) | 78 | (33.2) |
| Chagas’ heart disease | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 4 | (14.8) | 18 | (36.0) | 44 | (37.0) | 96 | (33.4) | 100 | (29.8) | 50 | (21.3) |
| Congenital heart disease | 0 | (0.0) | 4 | (28.6) | 4 | (14.8) | 0 | (0.0) | 8 | (6.7) | 6 | (2.1) | 13 | (3.9) | 10 | (4.3) |
| Ischemic heart disease | 0 | (0.0) | 2 | (14.3) | 4 | (14.8) | 6 | (12.0) | 10 | (8.4) | 65 | (22.6) | 89 | (26.5) | 76 | (32.3) |
| Other causes (myocarditis, valvular heart disease, hypertensive heart disease) | 0 | (0.0) | 2 | (14.3) | 3 | (11.1) | 4 | (8.0) | 7 | (5.9) | 27 | (9.4) | 23 | (6.8) | 21 | (8.9) |
| Total | 1 | (100) | 14 | (100) | 27 | (100) | 50 | (100) | 119 | (100) | 287 | (100) | 336 | (100) | 235 | (100) |