Premium Content 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 major molecular and genetic differences between men and women at high risk of having a heart attack. In the walls of the blood vessels going to the heart, at the cellular level there are fundamental differences between men and women, Prof Kovacic said.
Heart attack research breakthrough
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Heart attack research breakthrough
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