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There’s been a recent increase in the sudden deaths of young people and now scientists are looking into the cause.

It’s estimated that more than 260 young people die each year in Tennessee without a known cause.

Dr. Karen Chancellor from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center had to say on Live at 9.