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The study was published last week in the journal Circulation, and shows that there is one sudden cardiac death for every 43,770 National Collegiate Athletic Association student-athletes each year. Earlier estimates, which relied almost exclusively on news reports for information, had put the number as low as 1 in 300,000.
The study drawas information from N.C.A.A. databases and insurance claims, as well as from news reports — examined sudden deaths from 2004 to 2008 among N.C.A.A. student-athletes ages 17 to 23.
The study found that certain students were at higher risk than others, including black athletes and Division I basketball players. The incidence of sudden cardiac death among black athletes was one in 18,000, possibly because of a higher prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a leading cause of sudden cardiac death, in this population. Click here to see the research summary.