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- In the U.S., annually 450,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) outside
of health care settings each year.
- ~3,000 young people die from sudden cardiac death (SCD) each year (reference Center
for Disease Control 1999 report).
- More than 6 million high school students particiapte in athletics each year.
- 90% of SCA occur during or after athletic activities.
- 90% of the SCD are male.
- The average age of collapse is 17.
- Brain death and permanent death start to occur in just 4 to 6 minutes after a person
has cardiac arrest.
- The chance to survive a SCA decreases by 7 to 10% every minute after the attack.
- When defibrillation is delivered within five minutes of the sudden cardiac
arrest, 50 percent of individuals survive.
- Ambulances typically arrive within nine minutes of a 911 call.
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- 1 in every 500 people has Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy (HCM).
- HCM is the leading cause of sudden death in student athletes.
- Of the young athletes that die from sudden cardiac death each year, 36% suffer
from HCM.
- Although primarily a genetically inherited disease. Only ~60% of people inherit HCM.
40% of people with HCM have no family history of HCM.
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