Pregnancy boosts heart attack risk

Posted on August 26, 2008 in Pregnancy weight gain (Category: Pregnancy)

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 separate phenomenon in the sense that these are young women who are not supposed to have [heart attacks]," said advantage researcher Dr. Uri Elkayam, a professor of medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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