Screening Young People for Conditions Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death

We generally don’t screen asymptomatic young people for conditions that predispose them to sudden cardiac death, because routine population-wide screening would be a massive undertaking, with unclear benefit. In this study from the U.K., a charitable organization (“Cardiac Risk in the Young“) advertised a program through social media and ultimately enrolled 104,000 people (age range, 14–35) who were screened with questionnaires, electrocardiograms (ECGs), and selective echocardiography.