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Sex is only a rare cause of sudden cardiac arrest, new research suggests. Dr. Chugh and other workers at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute of California looked at cardiac arrest cases in Portland hospitals over a 13-year period and found that sex was a contributing factor in fewer than 1% of the cases. Where sex was the trigger, men were more prone to have an arrest, and CPR was performed in less than a third of the cases, highlighting the importance of public education on CPR.<\/p>\n
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- Sex is only a rare cause of sudden cardiac arrest, new research from Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute of California suggests.<\/li>\n
- The researchers examined records of cardiac arrest cases in Portland hospitals over a 13-year period and found that sex was a contributing factor in fewer than 1% of the cases.<\/li>\n
- In the cases where sex was implicated, CPR was performed infrequently, highlighting the importance of public education on CPR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
“Sudden cardiac arrest is associated with sexual activity far more often in men than women, research suggests. But sex is a rare trigger for sudden cardiac arrest.”<\/p>\n