[Causes and as age and sex distribution in autopsy cases of sudden natural death of noncoronary etiology].

In 1,382 autopsied cases of sudden death we found 409 which died of a non-coronarogenic cause. The proportion of women was significantly higher (37.2%) than that of men (23%). The age at death in the different kinds of sudden death of this genesis was lower than in those persons whose death was not acute. The death age was especially low in the group of instantaneous death. Like in coronarogenic death the part of sudden death was higher in males than in females. The distribution of the frequency of causes of sudden death was the same as that in general mortality. Embolia of the lung was most frequent in both sexes and followed by cerebrovascular lesions. Acquired heart/valve/diseases ranged next in women and were followed by malignant tumors and aortic rupture. On the other hand, aortic rupture was at the third place in males and followed by malignant tumors and hemorrhages of the gastrointestinal tract. In both sexes the mentioned causes of death belong over 70% to all sudden deaths of non-coronarogenic origin. Other important causes of non-coronarogenic acute death are discussed.