Outcomes in African Americans undergoing cardioverter-defibrillator implantation for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death: findings from the Prospective Observational Study of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (PROSE-ICD).

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Published in Heart Rhythm on May 02, 2014

Authors

Yiyi Zhang1, Robert Kennedy2, Elena Blasco-Colmenares3, Barbara Butcher3, Sanaz Norgard3, Zayd Eldadah4, Timm Dickfeld5, Kenneth A Ellenbogen6, Joseph E Marine3, Eliseo Guallar1, Gordon F Tomaselli3, Alan Cheng7

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
2: Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, Michigan.
3: Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
4: Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
5: University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.
6: Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
7: Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: alcheng@jhmi.edu.

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