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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2015 Jun 5;116(12):1887–1906. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.304521

Figure 2. Causes of SCD and rates (A), and age of SCD onset in each disease (B).

Figure 2

A. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of SCD, but the rates of baseline heart disease differ between Western countries and Japan.

B. SCDs occur in elderly populations in coronary heart disease and valvular heart disease, whereas most SCDs in CPVT and LQTS develop at age less than 35 years.

ARVC indicates arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; BrS, Brugada syndrome; CPVT, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia; ERS, early repolarization syndrome; HCM, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; LQTS, long QT syndrome; NIDCM, non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acids; SCD, sudden cardiac death.