Aside from the inexplicable fatalities, there are several known causes of sudden cardiac death.
"The devices enormously reduce the mortality and risk of sudden cardiac death" in at-risk patients, Reiner said.
In theory, the longer the QT interval is above normal, the more the risk of sudden cardiac death.
The benefits in terms of sudden cardiac death reduction are there for all women, not just those with established heart disease.
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Wales is the latest place to take part in the charity's 12-month lobbying tour to highlight sudden cardiac death in the young.
Lengthening the QT interval can raise the risk of sudden cardiac death, especially in people who have a genetic condition called long QT syndrome.
The condition, says Lee, can cause arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death.
In the Lords (from 3pm), questions range across measures to detect and prevent sudden cardiac death and the number of EU employees who pay either no tax, or reduced rates.
Mrs Linforth is now backing Cry's campaign for better cardiac screening for young people who go to the doctor with inexplicable chest pains or for the siblings of a child who has died from a sudden cardiac death.
Two years later those who ate the Mediterranean diet had half the risk of heart attack and sudden cardiac death compared with those who stayed on the regular low-fat diet, even though their cholesterol declined only a modest 14%.
The idea was that Elliott, who had won plaudits as the head of orthopedic joint maker Zimmer Holdings, could fix up a company whose main businesses in heart stents and implanted defibrillators, used to prevent sudden cardiac death, were running into significant road blocks.
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Former Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba is supporting a year-long campaign that aims to prevent death from sudden cardiac arrests.
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Alison Cox, founder and chief executive of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), said the incidence of cardiac death by sudden impact in the UK were not that high.
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