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Parents of girl killed by cardiac arrest get defibrillator installed in rural Alberta town
Genomic sequencing of 3,000 people who suffered sudden cardiac arrest identified 15 genes that are linked to electrical heart function. Younger victims of cardiac arrest had more harmful variants of these genes.
Original paper (not open access): https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacep.2026.03.016

A major new study from researchers at Cedars-Sinai has found that younger people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest are much more likely to have a genetic cause behind the condition than older adults. The findings suggest that genetic testing could help identify people at risk before a deadly event happens. The research was published in […]