Publications by authors named "Mustafa Saleem Patel"
Background: Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) increases with age, and approximately one in 600 patients above 65 develop this condition. In this study, the authors assessed trends in mortality related to SSS among older adults ≥65 years of age in the United States from 1999 to 2019.
Methods: Trends in cardiovascular mortality related to SSS were identified by analyzing the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) database, where cardiovascular deaths were listed as the underlying cause of death and SSS was listed as the contributing cause of death between 1999 and 2019.