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Editorial| Volume 151, P211-212, June 2020

Age matters for cardiac arrests? No meaningful interpretation of results is possible without understanding context

      Most would agree that age matters. It matters for morbidity. It matters for the risk of death. It matters for the risk to die of COVID. It matters for most diseases. And it matters for the chance to survive a cardiac arrest in a US hospital.
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