Sudden cardiac death screening tests are offered by the heart doctor NYC specialist, Dr. Steven Reisman, a best rated cardiologist at the New York Cardiac Diagnostic Center. Sudden cardiac death, which can have multiple causes, accounts for the largest cause of natural death – approximately 350,000 deaths per year in the United States – topping deaths from lung cancer, breast cancer, and AIDS.
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a sudden, unexpected death caused by loss of heart function (sudden cardiac arrest). Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is responsible for half of all heart disease deaths.
Sudden cardiac death occurs most frequently in adults in their mid-30s to mid-40s, and affects men twice as often as it does women. This heart condition is very rare in children, affecting only 1 to 2 per 100,000 children each year.