The risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure has declined over time thanks to the sequential introduction of new treatments.
Acute myocarditis is correlated with cardiac arrhythmia in 25% of cases; ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) constitute a third of these arrhythmias.
Visceral adiposity has been associated with altered microstructural properties of white matter in adolescents.
Mitral stenosis is less frequent than mitral regurgitation (MR) in developed countries. MR was reported to be present in > 1% of Western type population after 70 years old and associated with an increased mortality.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide
