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Actress Hayden Panettiere, who died Sunday at age 36, was found in cardiac arrest by authorities, and an autopsy found no signs of trauma that would have contributed to her death, though an official cause of death has yet to be released.
Hayden Panettiere died Sunday at age 36. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)
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The Greenville County, South Carolina, coroner’s office said Monday that authorities responded to a report of a cardiac arrest, where they found Panettiere unresponsive and experiencing cardiac arrest.
Emergency medical services administered “advanced cardiac life support measures,” but resuscitation efforts were not successful and Panettiere was pronounced dead shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, according to the coroner’s statement.
Officials completed an autopsy, which found no signs of trauma that would have contributed to her death.
Panettiere’s cause of death remains “pending further investigation and the completion of additional studies,” the coroner’s office said.
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