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When you have a ‘silent’ heart attack

Heart Sisters

"People often believe that their 'silent' heart attack is something else - like the flu or a pulled muscle. Much later, when they end up getting diagnosed with a heart attack that they didn't know they were having, they might recall an episode of feeling vaguely unwell." - Dr. Leslie Cho

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

There may be no better study to symbolize the dysfunction that has invaded cardiology than the VIRGO trial, a study examining the outcomes of young patients (18-55) presenting to the hospital with a heart attack. Despite padding the MINOCA numbers with SCAD, MINOCA is much rarer than conventional epicardial coronary disease.

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Will this $840,000 grant make a dent in women’s cardiac care?

Heart Sisters

Two-thirds of clinical research on heart disease is still done on white middle-aged men. Will this new grant fund a solution to an alarming gender gap?