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To the Editor: Albert et al. (Nov. 9 issue)¹ demonstrate an inverse association between the frequency of vigorous exercise at base line and sudden death from cardiac causes during or shortly after single episodes of vigorous exercise over the ensuing 20 years. Although the authors show no association between increasing levels of vigorous exercise and total sudden deaths from cardiac causes, one can calculate from Table 2 of the article that as the frequency of episodes of vigorous exercise at base line increased from less than one to one through four to five or more times per week, the proportion . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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