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To the Editor: Akiyama and coworkers (Aug. 9 issue)¹ claim that motor vehicle accidents are no more common, or possibly less common, among patients who resume driving after ventricular tachyarrhythmias than in the general driving population. The reported annual risk was 3.4 percent, lower than the estimate for the general population. However, only 559 of 1016 of all patients originally enrolled in the study group (55 percent) responded to the question regarding injuries from automobile accidents. As pointed out in the accompanying editorial,² 107 patients died before completing the questionnaire; this group may have included persons who died from injuries . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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