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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a common manifestation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) which is underappreciated in the CVD literature. Investigations into the CVD risk factors which contribute to SCD have yielded little additional information, and in the majority of the people who succumb to SCD, there are no previous signs or symptoms of CVD. Most of the previously published information on SCD investigates the hours and days leading up to the event but falls short of examining medium-and long-term exposures and SCD.