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Ventricular tachycardia epidemiology and demographics
Introduction
Overview
Overview
VT is more prevalent among patients with coronary artery disease. Eldery patients are more commonly affected by ideopathic VT. Ideopathic VT is commonly observed in women.There is no racial predilection for VT.
Epidemiology
Epidemiology
- The prevalence of ventricular arrhythmia is approximately 69000 per 100,000 men and 68000 per 100,0000 women with coronary artery disease worldwide.[1]
- The prevalence of ventricular tachycardia is approximately 54,000 per 100,000 in men and 55,000 per 100,000 in women with hypertension, valvular heart disease, or cardiomyopathy without coronary artery disease and 31000 per 100,000 in men and 30,000 per 100,000 in women with no cardiovascular disease.
- Between 2005-2013, the incidence of vetricular arrhythmia associated cardiomyopathy was estimated to be 28,800 cases per 100,000 individuals in Minnesota.[2]
References
References
- ↑ Aronow, W. S.; Ahn, C.; Mercando, A. D.; Epstein, S.; Kronzon, I. (2002). “Prevalence and Association of Ventricular Tachycardia and Complex Ventricular Arrhythmias With New Coronary Events in Older Men and Women With and Without Cardiovascular Disease”. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 57 (3): M178–M180. doi:10.1093/gerona/57.3.M178. ISSN 1079-5006.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sirichand, Surksha; Killu, Ammar M.; Padmanabhan, Deepak; Hodge, David O.; Chamberlain, Alanna M.; Brady, Peter A.; Kapa, Suraj; Noseworthy, Peter A.; Packer, Douglas L.; Munger, Thomas M.; Gersh, Bernard J.; McLeod, Christopher J.; Shen, Win-Kuang; Cha, Yong-Mei; Asirvatham, Samuel J.; Friedman, Paul A.; Mulpuru, Siva K. (2017). “Incidence of Idiopathic Ventricular Arrhythmias”. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 10 (2). doi:10.1161/CIRCEP.116.004662. ISSN 1941-3149.
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