Talk:Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome

I am reading an Erle Stanley Gardner book from 1955 which mentions this disorder in the forward. Gardner writes about a doctor in Hawaii - Dr. Alvin V. Majoska - who had written a paper on the subject for the Hawaii Med J. 1948 Jul-Aug;7(6):469-73, "Sudden death in Filipino men; an unexplained syndrome." The minimal online version is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18875726

The Gardner forward says that "that prior to 1900 no less than fifty-one of these 'Nightmare Death' cases had occurred in the Hawaiian Islands".

I found another reference that mentions these earlier deaths.

"Foreign epidemiologists RG Munger and EA Booton published a report in an international journal in 1998 titled “Bangungut in Manila: sudden and unexplained death in sleep of adult Filipinos,” based on autopsy records from 1948 to 1982." (Quoted in http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/259051/bangungot-young-men-die-suddenly-sleep/) The Munger paper is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9758125

The lifestye.inquirer.net article quotes mortality rates of 26-40 per 100,000 population.

These additional references could be included in this article.

Brent1023 (talk) 04:17, 15 February 2018 (UTC) BrentReply

This article must be updated, as there is minimal information about SADS outside specific Asian countries, though I have found a source to help improve it: ^[1]202.169.23.60 (talk) 00:53, 9 June 2022 (UTC)Reply