{"id":26353,"date":"2019-02-14T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T20:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=26353"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:29:36","slug":"raising-awareness-about-heart-disease-in-younger-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/raising-awareness-about-heart-disease-in-younger-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Awareness About Heart Disease in Younger Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-area\">\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text\" class=\"plain\">\n<p>Dr. Melissa Caughey of UNC Cardiology is <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.self.com\/story\/heart-attacks-in-women-under-54\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed by <em>Self<\/em> magazine<\/a> about her research showing increasing rates of heart attack in women between the ages of 35 and 54. The research study, <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.037137\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Twenty Year Trends and Sex Differences in Young Adults Hospitalized with Acute Myocardial Infarction: The ARIC Community Surveillance Study<\/a> was recently published in <em>Circulation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"viewlet-below-content\">\n<div id=\"portlets-below\" class=\"row\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24058 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2017\/01\/Caughey-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Caughey, PhD\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2017\/01\/Caughey-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2017\/01\/Caughey-301x451.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2017\/01\/Caughey.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Melissa Caughey of UNC Cardiology is interviewed by Self magazine about her research showing increasing rates of heart attack in women between the ages of 35 and 54. 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