Based on the statistics, every 10 male risk of dying from sudden cardiac arrest.
Sudden cardiac arrest entails the death of thousands of people every year.
This occurs most often in people without prior symptoms of cardiovascular disease.
“Sudden cardiac arrest is difficult to study because most patients had no heart problems at the time of death,” said Donald Lloyd-Jones of northwestern University in the United States. The results showed that cardiac arrest are exposed to mostly men. It is noted that every tenth male is at risk to die due to the cessation of blood circulation. Only 2.8 percent of women can die due to sudden cardiac arrest, the researchers note.
The presence of high blood pressure helped to determine a more accurate ratio, which was among men of 8.9% in women and 1.9%. This is because the body of the male is weaker resists diseases of the cardiovascular system. Jones said that now they are developing effective ways of determining the risk group of people, but at the moment these methods are virtually absent.
For the study, published in the journal of the American heart Association, the team studied information about more than 5 200 men and women aged 28 to 62 years.
Focusing on four major risk factors: total cholesterol, Smoking and diabetes, the researchers calculated total estimates of lifetime risk for sudden cardiac death. Also gave predictions for each group according to the data obtained in the study of the condition of the body. During the follow-up to 375 people died from sudden cardiac arrest.
