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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2017 Nov 16;377(20):1943–1953. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1615710

Table 3.

Incidence of Sudden Cardiac Arrest among Competitive Athletes.

Variable Age Group
12–17 yr 18–34 yr 35–45 yr All
Athlete-years of observation from 2009 through 2014 342,600 1,036,974 735,420 2,114,994
No. of athletes who had sudden cardiac arrest 4 9 3 16
No. of cases per 100,000 athlete-yr 1.167 0.868 0.408 0.756