Health
Heart attack research breakthrough – Gympie Times
Men are twice as likely as women to have a heart attack but new research may lead to gender-based therapies.
How you are treated for coronary heart disease may be dictated by your gender after a groundbreaking study identified the key genes that contribute to heart attack are different in men and women.
The international study, in collaboration with Australia’s The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, compared hundreds of male and female patients with coronary heart disease – the leading cause of heart attack.
The Institute’s Executive Director, Professor Jason Kovacic, said the breakthrough pinpointed…
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