{"id":8010,"date":"2013-12-04T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2013-12-03T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T22:49:14","slug":"american-heart-association-says-many-sudden-cardiac-arrests-preceded-by-warning-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2013\/12\/04\/american-heart-association-says-many-sudden-cardiac-arrests-preceded-by-warning-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Association says many sudden cardiac arrests preceded by warning signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanDallas, TX<\/strong> – Sudden cardiac arrest isn\u2019t always so sudden, according to research presented at the American Heart Association\u2019s Scientific Sessions 2013.<\/p>\n

In a study of middle-age men in Portland, Oregon, more than half had possible warning signs up to a month before their hearts stopped abruptly.<\/p>\n

Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops due to a failure in its electrical system. Patients can sometimes survive if they receive CPR immediately and a defibrillator is used quickly to shock the heart into a normal rhythm.<\/p>\n

\"Cardiac<\/a>About 360,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are reported each year in the United States, according to the American Heart Association. Only 9.5 percent of people who suffer a cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time rescuers get there, it\u2019s much too late,\u201d said Eloi Marijon, M.D., study lead author and a visiting scientist at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n

The new research is part of the 11-year-old Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study, which involves 1 million people in the Portland metro area. Researchers gathered information about the symptoms and health history of men 35 to 65 years old who had out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in 2002-12.<\/p>\n

Among 567 men who had out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, 53 percent had symptoms prior to the cardiac arrest. Of those with symptoms, 56 percent had chest pain, 13 percent had shortness of breath and 4 percent had dizziness, fainting or palpitations.<\/p>\n

Almost 80 percent of the symptoms occurred between four weeks and one hour before the sudden cardiac arrest, he said.<\/p>\n

Most men had coronary artery disease, but only about half had been tested for it before their cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

Researchers are conducting similar work in women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lesson is, if you have these kinds of symptoms, please don\u2019t blow them off,\u201d said Sumeet Chugh, M.D., senior author and associate director for genomic cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.\u201cGo see your healthcare provider. Don\u2019t waste time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-authors are Kyndaron Reinier, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Audrey Evanado, M.D.; Carmen Teodorescu, M.D., Ph.D.; Kumar Narayanan, M.D.; Adriana Huertas Vazquez, Ph.D.; Harpriya Chugh, B.E.; Katherine Jerger, B.S.; Ronald Mariani, E.M.T.P.; Eric Stecker, M.D., M.P.H.; Karen Gunson, M.D.; and Jonathan Jui, M.D., M.P.H. Author disclosures are on the abstract.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Heart Association and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation funded the study.<\/p>\n

Learn more about cardiac arrest<\/a> and CPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dallas, TX – Sudden cardiac arrest isn\u2019t always so sudden, according to research presented at the American Heart Association\u2019s Scientific Sessions 2013. In a study of middle-age men in Portland, Oregon, more than half had possible warning signs up to a month before their hearts stopped abruptly. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[2538,3833,1296,7277,3089,4030,4106,3890,8799,3891,4560,1251,8798,3324,2038],"class_list":["post-8010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-american-heart-association","tag-cardiac-arrest","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-coronary-artery-disease","tag-cpr","tag-dallas-tx","tag-defibrillator","tag-dizziness","tag-doris-duke-charitable-foundation","tag-fainting","tag-heart","tag-los-angeles-ca","tag-palpitations","tag-portland-or","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8011,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}