Figure 1

Using SCD-Predict, cohorts of 100 men (blue) and 100 women (red) were simulated and analyzed.

The findings visualized above show (a) simulated age at time of death, (b) total number of atheroma, (c) total vulnerable atheroma and (d) number of arrhythmias. These results are compared to findings of¹⁰ in Table 1. While the maximum numbers of atheromas, vulnerable atheromas and arrhythmias are the same in “sim-men” and “sim-women” cohorts, the mean numbers are substantially higher for “sim-men” than for “sim-women” as expected and as reflected both in Table 1 and Figure 1. Age at death distributions are to a large extent predetermined by the “stop simulation time” = (72.8 + 8 randn) years, where randn is a MATLAB function for random numbers normally distributed with mean = 0 and std = 1.