Cardiac death still big risk

"Sudden cardiac death after a heart attack dropped in the past 30 years, but there's higher risk in the first month after a heart attack, U.S. researchers said. Dr. A. Selcuk Adabag of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis and colleagues at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., studied 2,997 residents - average age 67, 59 percent men - who had a heart attack in Olmsted County, Minn., from 1979 to 2005. Patients were tracked for about 4.7 years. During the study period, 1,160 patients died, 24 percent from sudden cardiac death. The 30-day cumulative incidence of sudden cardiac death was 1.2 percent - four times higher than expected" - WKMQ