Objectifs : Sudden death, defined as a death which happens within 1 hour from the first symptom, is classified commonly as a coronary accident. Myocardial infarction is proposed as principal cause of sudden death. The frequency of sudden death is higher than that of fatal myocardial infarction. A recent overview showed that blood pressure lowering drugs did not decrease sudden death risk, whereas they decrease the risk of fatal myocardial infarction.
We analyzed here the risk factors of sudden death and fatal myocardial infarction to provide more insight of the relation between these two accidents.
Méthodes : We used Cox model to build the risk scores for two studied accidents on R (version 3.2.2), based on 15279 individual data in placebo group from seven randomized controlled trials (six of INDANA database in hypertension & one in type 2 diabetes Diahhycab).