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“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 2,000 young, seemingly healthy people under age 25 in the United States die each year of sudden cardiac arrest.”
School physicals were commonly required when I was a kid many decades ago.
Thirteen is the new old for white peepoles.Just ask Bill Gates and Xao Bai-Ding.
There sure are a lot of coincidences these days.
And guess who knew this would happen?????????? BIG-GOV!!!!
That makes it common? What load of crap.
A handful of teens die from cardiac arrest each year and that was the case long before the vaccines came into existance.
https://www.parentmap.com/article/silent-killer-sudden-cardiac-arrest-in-teens
JANUARY 30, 2014
At around 9:30 a.m., Matthew’s parents, Jerry and Melinda Truax, got a phone call from school officials, who told them that Matthew had collapsed. Later that morning, their youngest son was pronounced dead at the hospital of sudden cardiac arrest, caused by a heart condition they hadn’t known Matthew had. He was five days shy of his 17th birthday.
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Every three days in this country, a young athlete dies of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), according to Dr. Jonathan Drezner of UW Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine, a sports medicine expert and team doctor for the University of Washington Huskies and the Seattle Seahawks.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heart-attacks/heart-attacks-can-occur-in-teenagers-idUSCOL26009720071002
Although quite rare, heart attacks can occur in adolescents without heart defects; and a case series reported by two cardiologists from The Heart Center at Akron Children’s Hospital, Ohio, serves as a of reminder this.
Reporting in the current issue of Pediatrics, Drs. John R. Lane and Giora Ben-Shachar describe nine healthy adolescents (eight boys and one girl), ages 12 to 20 years, who developed severe chest pains and met the criteria for a diagnosis of heart attack.
https://blog.nemours.org/2017/02/sudden-cardiac-arrest-teenage-athletes-risk/
Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Teenage Athletes: What’s the Risk?
Sudden cardiac arrest is nothing new, but it still gets plenty of attention when it affects a young athlete—usually because it’s so rare, unexpected and tragic. We’re all familiar with the stories of seemingly healthy teenagers collapsing on the field or court and succumbing to cardiac arrest. It’s estimated that between 6,000 and 8,000 young people experience sudden cardiac arrest (or SCA) each year, and only about one in 10 survive.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/heart-attack-kids-year-dies-cardiac-arrest/story?id=13000983
8-Year-Old Dies Following Supposed Sudden Cardiac Arrest
An 8-year-old boy from Lincoln County, N.C., did not have the same fate as Cameron. After local emergency services received a call at 8 a.m. Thursday morning about a boy at Pumpkin Center Intermediate School who had difficulty breathing, the boy was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. He died later that evening, according to local news station WBTV.