An examination of risk factors associated with worldwide sudden cardiac death rates in children

Abstract

There are many programs and research studies within the United States that are currently in place to try and both identify and possibly eliminate potential risk factors of various life-threatening illnesses. Lifestyle or unhealthy living is a factor which may have a direct influence on the possibility of one developing heart disease and other negative health outcomes. It is therefore possible that certain types of unhealthy behaviors may be associated with identifiable and unidentifiable risk factors capable of increasing the probability of diagnoses with one or more of the top ten disease killers or preventable causes of death in America. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a sudden, unexpected death caused by loss of heart function (sudden cardiac arrest)