Sudden cardiac death affects roughly one in 100,000 young, healthy individuals per year. In many cases, the cause is never discovered. In this 150-second analysis, MedPage Today clinical reviewer F. Perry Wilson MD, MSCE, discusses a New England Journal of Medicine report that has begun to elucidate how such tragedies happen.
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, is an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He earned his BA from Harvard University, graduating with honors with a degree in biochemistry. He then attended Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. From there he moved to Philadelphia to complete his internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his post graduate years, he also obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an accomplished author of many scientific articles and holds several NIH grants. He is a MedPage Today reviewer, and in addition to his video analyses, he authors a blog, The Methods Man. You can follow @methodsmanmd on Twitter.
How Can a Healthy Young Person Just Drop Dead?
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