Although heart attacks are rare among young women, becoming pregnant does double or triple a woman's risk, a new study finds.
"This is a unique phenomenon in the sense that these are young women who are not supposed to have [heart attacks]," said lead researcher Dr. Uri Elkayam, a professor of medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Pregnancy boosts heart attack risk
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