Twenty years on, Annette Maher and her sister are helping scientists in their quest to find the cause of heart attacks affecting otherwise fit and healthy women.
The condition comes without warning and is caused by a tear in the inner layer of one of the blood vesselsAnnette Maher had her first heart attack in 2002. She was 39, fighting fit, and on her way to lunch with girlfriends when she felt a sharp pain “like a knife through the back of my chest”.
“It wasn’t even on my radar … even when I was told in the back of the ambulance, ‘You’re having a heart attack,’ I rolled my eyes,” Huntley said. The condition accounts for a quarter of all heart attacks in women under 50 but knowledge of its causes and potential treatments has been held back by a lack of research in the field, said the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute’s executive director, Professor Jason Kovacic.“We urgently need to learn more about this disease and to discover what is causing it; this disease can not only be life-threatening but in some patients it can reoccur without warning,” he said.
“SCAD is often missed in the post-mortem because it’s such a subtle change,” he said. “It’s a great study, but it means a lot of work to try and figure out what it all means, and how we put it all together.”
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