[Sudden cardiac death and occupational activity]

4578 persons who died suddenly from natural reason were dissected in the Center of Legal Medicine of the University of Frankfurt am Main between 1979 and 1988. Among those were 2542 with sudden cardiac death. In 776 cases a relation between the occupation and the danger of dying of a sudden cardiac death could be proved. All the others had to be eliminated of the statistics, either because they were already retired when they died or because the occupation couldn't be found out. Altogether 142 different occupations were registered. A great percentage of the dissected people were construction workers, members of the safety duty and the transportation business and managers. Also butchers, bakers and cooks appeared quite often in the exploration, but never a shoemaker or a theologist.