A cardiologist at Sweden’s University Hospital and Uppsala Clinical Research Center received a 300 000 kronor grant to study the incidence of spontaneous coronary artery dissection in women with heart attacks and the prognosis for these patients.
While spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of a heart attack, most of those stricken are young women and some scientists think hormones may play a role. An estimated 1 out of 10 women have a heart attack before age 50, and in a quarter of those cases, the women are pregnant, according to cardiologist Christoph Varenhorst, who receivecd the grant.
