[AxelPaulsenJr]

During the study, reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology December 3rd, the researchers noted instances of sudden death among all people aged 12 to 35 between 1979 and 1999.

In that time period, 300 teens and young adults experienced sudden cardiac death, 55 of whom were athletes.

The above statement to me appears to contradict the following statement.

Among athletes, 2.3 out of 100,000 people experienced sudden death every year, while non-athletes showed a sudden death risk of less than one out of 100,000 people each year.

Unless I am reading this wrong, it would appear that a greater chance of sudden death exits among non-athletes?

[FreedomFlynnie]

Unless I am reading this wrong, it would appear that a greater chance of sudden death exits among non-athletes?

More non-athletes than athletes. Using the given deaths and death rates, it looks like the study considered about 2.4 million to be athletes out of a population of 26.9 million children.