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Isn't heart failure one of the largest causes of death (by any cause)?
by dekhn 3y ago
Isn't heart failure one of the largest causes of death (by any cause)?
- _2z1p 3y agoNot in otherwise healthy men in their 20s and 30s.
- yellowapple 3y agoDepends. Are those men athletes? https://www.healthline.com/health/athletes-dying-of-heart-attacks https://www.healthline.com/health/athletes-dying-of-heart-at...
- nateb2022 3y agoSee Daniels CJ, Rajpal S, Greenshields JT, et al. Prevalence of Clinical and Subclinical Myocarditis in Competitive Athletes With Recent SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Results From the Big Ten COVID-19 Cardiac Registry. JAMA Cardiol. 2021;6(9):1078–1087. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2021.2065 (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2780548 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...)
- dekhn 3y agoSure, I would expect men in that age have several other risk-associated causes of death which are higher. Anyway, I invoke the fallacy of base rates.
- yellowapple 3y agoRight? I'd be more concerned if the majority of one's acquaintances died from something that's not heart failure.