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Originally Posted by mauboy1
So kids who are perfectly healthy during a sporting event that just keeled over and died on the court/field suffered from a heart attack? No they didn't, they suffered from cardiac arrest where their heart just shut down.
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the mechanism is the same, regardless of the cause....a 12 year old kid that goes into cardiac arrest because of an arrythmia or congenital defect or any other reason still is having a heart attack the same way a 450 pound guy with arterial blockages is...there is an interruption of either blood flow or electrical conduction that causes part of the heart muscle to die (infarct)