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Approximately every five minutes one sudden death occurs in the United States. One sudden death takes place every half-hour in as small a country as The Netherlands. If this prevalence of sudden death in industrialized countries holds true as an average, four to five-thousand sudden deaths occur yearly in the City of Barcelona and its surrounding area. But who are the victims? Where, how, when and why?
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Brugada, P. (1988). Introduction. In: de Luna, A.B., Betriu, A., Permanyer, G. (eds) Therapeutics in Cardiology. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1333-2_1
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