re: Bronny James suffers cardiac arrest

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The study, which is being presented Friday at the American Heart Association's virtual Scientific Sessions, pulled data from 311,065 death certificates for Black and white people in the United States who died from cardiac arrest from 1999-2018.

Researchers found deaths from cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops beating, initially dropped by nearly half. The rate fell from 80.1 deaths per million people in 1999 to 44.3 per million people in 2012.

But then it reversed course, climbing 8.8% overall from 2012 to 2018. The increase was significantly higher – 10.9% – for Black adults compared to 6.9% for white adults. When it came to people under the age of 35, deaths from cardiac arrest among Black people jumped by 35%. But they fell for white people by 11%. Among those 65 and older, deaths increased twice as much for Black adults – 8% compared to 4% for their white peers.

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So I treated Marine recruits for 8 years. Sometimes kids have underlying cardiac conditions (such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or anomalous coronary artery) that go undetected until they engage in extremely strenuous activities (such as the fitness tests). These conditions throw their hearts into life-threatening arrhythmias.

We've had a couple of kids that literally dropped dead and there was no way to know it beforehand unless they somehow received an echocardiogram beforehand. So it definitely happens and is nothing new.

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