One statistic that always leaps out at me is that women only make up around 27% of the participants in heart-related research.
I honestly feel like this is one reason why women die more frequently from their heart attacks than men do; there's simply not as much known about heart disease in women.
We can start to change that by participating in clinical trials and research. Here's a good source of clinical trials:
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
In fact, searching that site, I just now found a study that's currently enrolling young women who've had heart attacks:
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00597922?term=heart+attack&rank=6
As soon as this post is up, I'm going to email them and sign up, and I would encourage other women to seek out research opportunities as well.
-Laura
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Clinical Trials and Research Studies
- By laurahc
- Posted September 30, 2009 at 12:55 pm · 1 reply
- In Younger women with heart disease
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- Edited September 30, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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- By laurahc
- Posted October 1, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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Argh--looking at it further, it appears that I would've had to have been enrolled in that study when I was still in the hospital, within 24 hours of being admitted.
Ah well, and here I thought I'd found a good research opportunity for us younger ones. OK, back to
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
and searching for "heart attack" to see what might come up. If nothing else, having a heart attack does help you deal with the "one step forward, two steps back" stuff. Sigh. Back to the drawing board.
-Laura
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