Research Examples (Women)

Here is a tidbit from the AHA website which directly has impact on females such as myself, where monies raised are used towards research:

Heart attacks (myocardial infarction) in younger women.

Unfortunately, younger and middle-aged women who have a heart attack have poorer recovery than men, including higher mortality. While recent research has clarified a number of aspects of the differences in the distribution and functional consequences of atherosclerosis in women, there remains an urgent need to understand the mechanisms which contribute to the higher death rate after heart attack among younger women.

Arrhythmias.

It is critical that we pursue research to reduce the number of women experiencing and dying from sudden cardiac arrest. It is known that women are at higher risk of certain types of arrhythmias (e.g., drug-induced torsades), warranting further investigation into electrophysiologic mechanisms.