Doctors trying to determine why many young people are suddenly dying

By Tom Heaton For Daily Mail Australia 02:05 EDT 08 Jun 2022 , updated 02:32 EDT 08 Jun 2022

Healthy young people are dying suddenly and unexpectedly from a mysterious syndrome - as doctors seek answers through a new national register

People aged under 40 are being urged to have their hearts checked because they may potentially be at risk of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

The syndrome, known as SADS, has been fatal for all kinds of people regardless of whether they maintain a fit and healthy lifestyle.

SADS is an 'umbrella term to describe unexpected deaths in young people', said The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, most commonly occurring in people under 40 years of age.

People aged under 40 are being urged to have their hearts checked, because they may potentially be at risk of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) (pictured, woman experiencing chest pain while running)

People aged under 40 are being urged to have their hearts checked, because they may potentially be at risk of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) (pictured, woman experiencing chest pain while running)

The term is used when a post-mortem cannot find an obvious cause of death.

The US-based SADS Foundation has said that over half of the 4,000 annual SADS deaths of children, teens or young adults have one of the top two warning signs present.

Those signs include a family history of a SADS diagnosis or sudden unexplained death of a family member, and fainting or seizure during exercise, or when excited or startled, reported .

Last year a 31-year-old woman, Catherine Keane, died in her sleep while living with two friends in Dublin.

Catherine Keane (pictured right with her mother Margherita), 31, was found to have died in her sleep while living with two friends in Dublin last year

Catherine Keane (pictured right with her mother Margherita), 31, was found to have died in her sleep while living with two friends in Dublin last year

Her mother Margherita Cummins told the , 'They were all working from home so no one really paid attention when Catherine didn't come down for breakfast.'

'They sent her a text at 11.20am and when she didn't reply, they checked her room and found she had passed.

'Her friend heard a noise in her room at 3.56am and believes now that is when she died.'

Ms Cummins stated that her daughter 'went to the gym and walked 10,000 steps every day'.

'I take some comfort in that she went in her sleep and knew no pain and I'm grateful for that. I always worried about the kids driving in the car but never saw this coming. I never thought I'd ever lose a child in my life,'

Spokesperson for Melbourne's Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute said: 'there are approximately 750 cases per year of people aged under 50 in Victoria suddenly having their heart stop (cardiac arrest)' (pictured, woman suffering from chest pain)

Spokesperson for Melbourne's Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute said: 'there are approximately 750 cases per year of people aged under 50 in Victoria suddenly having their heart stop (cardiac arrest)' (pictured, woman suffering from chest pain)

Melbourne's Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute is developing the country's first SADS registry.

'There are approximately 750 cases per year of people aged under 50 in Victoria suddenly having their heart stop (cardiac arrest),' a spokesperson said.

'Of these, approximately 100 young people per year will have no cause found even after extensive investigations such as a full autopsy (SADS phenomenon).'

Cardiologist and researcher Dr Elizabeth Paratz said: 'Baker's registry was the first in the country and one of only a few in the world that combined ambulance, hospital and forensics information.'

'(It allows you to see) people have had the cardiac arrest and no cause was found on the back end,' Dr Paratz said.

She believes the potential lack of awareness may be due to the fact 'a lot of it takes place outside of traditional medical settings'.

Cardiologist and researcher Dr Elizabeth Paratz (pictured) said from a public health perspective, combating SADS was 'not as easy as everyone in Australia getting genetically screened' as scientists were still not 100 per cent clear on 'what genes cause this'

Cardiologist and researcher Dr Elizabeth Paratz (pictured) said from a public health perspective, combating SADS was 'not as easy as everyone in Australia getting genetically screened' as scientists were still not 100 per cent clear on 'what genes cause this'

'The majority of these SADS events, 90 per cent, occur outside the hospital – the person doesn't make it – so it's actually ambulance staff and forensics caring for the bulk of these patients,' Dr Paratz said.

'I think even doctors underestimate it. We only see the 10 per cent who survive and make it to hospital. We only see the tip of the iceberg ourselves.'

For family and friends of victims, SADS is a 'very hard entity to grasp' because it's a 'diagnosis of nothing', Dr Paratz added.

Dr Paratz said that from a public health perspective, combating SADS was 'not as easy as everyone in Australia getting genetically screened' as scientists were still not 100 per cent clear on 'what genes cause this'.

'The best advice would be, if you yourself have had a first-degree relative – a parent, sibling, child – who's had an unexplained death, it's extremely recommended you see a cardiologist,' she said

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hilarious that this is real life

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44647947)

doubt it's related to the vaxx but still wtf????

also why does it talk about children dying of sudden ADULT death syndrome smh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44648290)

Vaxcucks knee what they were signing up for and did it willingly. I have no sympathy for them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44650839)

You: Article doesn’t say this thing is new!

I’d say delete your moniker and go pumo but you’ve already done that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649215)

He will ignore these posts and likely never post ITT again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649288)

Drake?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649934)

in all honesty, well put and simple.

Chuck McGill would be proud.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44651311)

Tyia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44651754)

it would be convenient for the daily mail if there had been a unexplained upsurge in deaths, because that would make a great headline. query why that isn't the headline!

thankfully for the daily mail, readers like you and dm do the work for them. all they have to say is "doctors baffled by young people suddenly dying" and you'll assume that this is a new phenomenon and get all worked up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44652210)

Drake will re-emerge from his lair in a day or two spouting more easily disproven nonsense like this thread never happened

What a fat retard he is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649386)

But your reading comprehension is nonexistent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649210)

Tyia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649262)

Odd case!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649304)

xoxo

hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649970)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44650523)

Do you see this type of wily writing in your job?

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Almost anytime bafflement is expressed, it is because circumstances are encountered that are “new” and/or “puzzling” to the individual. This new or puzzling phenomena could be because of a recent increase (almost always the case), or it could be because the individual is star struck by many things in life or is just ignorant to the world.

Annoying article nonetheless. Should give context and not try and waste peoples time and get anti vaxxers riled up.

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Wow I opened up this thread and it's like a murderer's row of quotemos and pumos coming out of the woodwork to tell OP he's a fucking stupid ugly retarded gay faggot who should kill himself for, uh, "reasons" in here. What are the odds! OP sure seems dumb and highly unpopular... geez, I'd better dislike him as well or they might also think I'm dumb and unpopular. Fuck you, OP!!!! There you go, I said it. OP fucking sucks!!! Please like and respect me, pumos :)

(And what's even crazier is that these pumos and quotemos are all totally different people and not even one of them is Jewish, even though this is an obscure dying law bort that has been historically been filled with Jewish people. Wow, crazy but true!)

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," snarled Obeezy as an army of pumos and quotemos nodded vigorously and Benzo applauded wildly.

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I fucked your brain up real bad 😂

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You did, I'm totally obsessed with you and your obvious success and happiness makes me sooooo angry! Grrrr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44650552)

Oh don't worry, I didn't!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44654471)

this diagram is pretty damning: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/829093/fspor-04-829093-HTML-r1/image_m/fspor-04-829093-g001.jpg • mirror @ https://i.ibb.co/XFRp6V0/fspor-04-829093-g001.jpg

from this article, which is ostensibly peer-reviewed and what not: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.829093/full

(based on https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot but idk how reputable that site is)

thank god i'm not an athlete and don't overwork my heart much lolol

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edit: FULL DISCLOSURE - while i originally just searched for the stats, i wasn't finding much so i added 'vaccine' to the query. still, the #s on their own are concerning.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649460)

this place is full of mentally ill, paranoid, bitter people...... who are often accidentally right because the world sucks

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Drake?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44682142)

Rongtime vaccine skeptic here, but...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5126330&forum_id=2#44649618)