Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in Primary and Secondary Prevention

Figure 2. Relative risk ( ) is shown with box size proportional to sample size; lines indicate 95% CIs. For each stratum,
the diamond represents the pooled analysis. AVID = Antiarrhythmic versus Implantable Defibrillator; CABG Patch = Coronary
Artery Bypass Graft Patch Trial; CASH = Cardiac Arrest Study Hamburg; CAT = Cardiomyopathy Trial; CIDS = Canadian Implantable
Defibrillator Study; ICD = implantable cardioverter defibrillator; MADIT = Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation
Trial; MADIT II = Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II; MUSTT = Multicenter Unsustained Tachycardia Trial.
Sudden cardiac death for included trials.RR
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Ann Intern Med
March 18, 2003
vol. 138
no. 6
445-452