Articles tagged ‘mortality’

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has announced an educational programme at the 22nd Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, held in Beijing from the 15–16th October, to help reduce the mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in China, now amongst the highest in the world.¹

Chances of death at an early age (<75 years) are a fifth higher in Northern than Southern England, the gap now at its widest in 40 years, according to a comparative observational study into mortality trends from 1965 to 2008 published recently on www.bmj.com.(1)

A recent study[1] by a Dutch research team from the Leiden University Medical Centre asserts that despite the benefits of therapy with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), inappropriate shocks from the devices are “common” and place patients at a greater risk of arrhythmia and associated mortality. The research examines the incidence, predictors, and patient outcomes of inappropriate ICD shocks in a large, real-world patient population.

A new study [1] suggests that, in a broad population undergoing implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation, that mortality is relatively high, at 16%, within one year after implantation.