Bengaluru: Unexpected and Instant Death – something that happened in a few minutes from anything other than violence – has claimed at least four people under the age of 18 days by 2020, while a total of almost 50,000 in all age groups died of these cases , On average about 5 deaths one hour.
While the latest data about this problem shows a heart attack becomes the main cause – accounting of 57% or 28,680 from 49,925 sudden deaths in 2020 – people also die from brain bleeding and other sudden death causes.
The burglary of other causes has not been provided by the government.
In 2020, sudden death increased by almost 6% from the previous year, and contributed a greater percentage of overall deaths overall compared to 2019.
The analysis of past data showed that the increase in 2020 was more than double the rate of increase in 2019, When such deaths rose 2.8% compared to the previous year.
In fact, such cases have grown consistently since 2016.
Between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2020, almost 2.3 lakh people died suddenly, where 56% or more than 1.2 lakh died of a heart attack .
Dr.
Sunil Karanth, Chairperson, Critical Care Services, Manipal Health Company, explained: “Great bleeding in the brain, large stroke, especially in brain stem, heart attacks due to heart attack or arrhythmia (where the heart rhythm becomes abnormal) is the main cause of sudden death .
Other unusual causes are tears in a large vessel etc.
“Data shows 3% of such deaths by 2020 are people under the age of 18 – almost 2% under the age of 14 years – and the trend remains the same for a period of five year.
Nearly 7,600 or 3.3% of all deaths between 2016 and 2020 are those under the age of 18.
Not surprisingly, most of the sudden death was reported in the age group of 45-59 years, followed by those aged between 30 and 44 years, and those aged 60 years or more.
Of almost 2.3 lakh such death in a five-year word, 35% between 45-59 years, around 29% are in the age group of 30-44 years and 20.5% aged 60 years or more.
“Among the very young children, there is a documented phenomenon called the death of a box (sudden baby’s death syndrome or SIDS) where the child sticks out with a wrong position.
If not, the cause will be the same, restrictions with bleeding The brain, “Karanth said.
Analysis of wise split from such cases since 2016 showed that two-thirds of such cases occurred in just five countries: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Gujesh.
In fact, Maharashtra himself contributed third (73,144) of all cases, followed by Karnataka (23,020), Kerala (20,693), Madhya Pradesh (18,546) and Gujarat (15,882).
Tamil Nadu (12,494) and Rajasthan (11,517) also among countries with a high number of cases.