Category | Specific cause | Frequency |
---|---|---|
Cardiac | Sudden death without preceding symptoms | 86 |
Sudden death with preceding symptoms | 51 | |
Acute myocardial infarction < 30 days before death2-150 | 20 | |
Heart failure | 15 | |
Found dead | 3 | |
Cerebrovascular accident | 2 | |
Non-cardiac | Rupture aneurysm aortae | 4 |
↵2-150 Defined as enzyme elevation over two times normal values.