{"id":659635,"date":"2025-03-31T01:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/preventable-cardiac-deaths-during-marathons-are-down-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T01:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:50:18","slug":"preventable-cardiac-deaths-during-marathons-are-down-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/preventable-cardiac-deaths-during-marathons-are-down-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventable cardiac deaths during marathons are down, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f046357c26\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f046357c26\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/preventable-cardiac-deaths-during-marathons-are-down-study-finds\/#The_challenge_of_finding_data\" >The challenge of finding data<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/preventable-cardiac-deaths-during-marathons-are-down-study-finds\/#The_sports_growing_awareness_of_cardiac_death_risk\" >The sport&#8217;s growing awareness of cardiac death risk<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2024\/marathon.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2024\/marathon.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: RUN 4 FFWPU from Pexels\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2024\/marathon.jpg\" alt=\"marathon\" title=\"Credit: RUN 4 FFWPU from Pexels\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: RUN 4 FFWPU from Pexels<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While more people than ever are running marathons in the U.S., the risk of dying from a heart attack during a run has fallen dramatically in recent years. That&#8217;s a key conclusion from a new study by Jonathan Kim, associate professor in the Emory School of Medicine. Kim&#8217;s research is a follow-up to a study he published in 2012\u2014the first investigation into unexpected cardiac arrests during long-distance running events.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jama.2025.3026?guestAccessKey=1590ae63-6f44-4e97-8268-ca336f122100\" target=\"_blank\">published in <i>JAMA<\/i><\/a>, indicate that while the rate of marathon runners who suffer cardiac arrest remains unchanged, their chance of survival is twice what it was in the past. Now, far fewer marathon runners who suffer cardiac arrest are dying of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to see <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> reports about unfortunate cases of cardiac arrest during long-distance running events,&#8221; Kim says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, has the incidence of these events changed? Have there been changes in the most common causes of cardiac arrest? What are the factors associated with death and survival? It was a novel question to ask 13 years after our first analysis, and an important one because recreational running continues to increase in popularity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_challenge_of_finding_data\"><\/span>The challenge of finding data<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>More than 29 million people completed marathons in the U.S. between 2010 and 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le the number of the previous decade, which Kim examined in his first study. There&#8217;s no central registry of race-related cardiac events, so for both studies, his team had to find their data through a range of sources, starting by contacting individual race directors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We leveraged a few sources, including a comprehensive review of media reports,&#8221; Kim says. &#8220;We also had contact information for all race directors and were able to reach <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roximately 70% of those who helped and told us the number of events during this specific timeline, including if the individual died and the sex of the participant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used extensive public internet searches to identify and reach out to runners who survived cardiac arrests, or next-of-kin, to construct detailed profiles of as many cases as possible. &#8220;The vast majority of cases were identifiable by public search engines. And all of the deaths were as well,&#8221; Kim says.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing this extensive database, Kim found that while the rate of cardiac arrests was about the same during the two periods\u20140.60 per 100,000 participants now versus 0.54 per 100,000 participants in the earlier period\u2014the rate of deaths from these cases, however, fell by half: from 0.39 per 100,000 to 0.19 per 100,000. That&#8217;s about a 50% decline in the death rate since 2000\u20132009.<\/p>\n<p>As before, cardiac arrests remain far more common among men than among women and more common in marathons than half marathons.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_sports_growing_awareness_of_cardiac_death_risk\"><\/span>The sport&#8217;s growing awareness of cardiac death risk<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>What led to the dramatic change in death rates? Kim thinks the whole sport has become more aware of the risks and of the need to have emergency services available to runners, a conclusion he reached after interviewing as many survivors as he could find.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we found was that every one of those people got hands-on cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but the vast majority also had immediate access to an automated external defibrillator. That&#8217;s the difference,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>That survival rate is comparable to the cardiac arrest survival rate in other public places that now make defibrillators routinely available, such as airports and casinos, which have seen similar declines in deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Kim says his findings offer additional evidence of how important it is to make CPR training available to race participants and to strategically place defibrillators along the racecourse. It&#8217;s also important, he says, to better identify the most vulnerable in a population before they run a race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are more often potentially preventable events,&#8221; Kim says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being able to identify people, more commonly older individuals with unrecognized cardiovascular risk factors, doesn&#8217;t mean they can&#8217;t run a race. Rather, it affords the opportunity to improve primary preventive cardiovascular care and potentially further reduce the risk of cardiac arrest during these events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest during long-distance races hasn&#8217;t changed in over 20 years. I think this is an important arena of future research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n                                                    Cardiac Arrest During Long-Distance Running Races, <i>JAMA<\/i> (2025). <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2025.3026\" target=\"_blank\">DOI: 10.1001\/jama.2025.3026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium my-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProvided by<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmory University<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<use href=\"https:\/\/medx.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v6\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>\n                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Preventable cardiac deaths during marathons are down, study finds (2025, March 30)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 30 March 2025<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2025-03-cardiac-deaths-marathons.html\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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