August 18th, 2014
Disparities in Healthcare: Young Women Continue to Fare Worse than Men after an AMI
Aakriti Gupta, MD
Dr. Aakriti Gupta confronts the necessity to continue to spread awareness of the risk of AMI to young women in her analysis of the findings from her recent study on the subject.
March 13th, 2012
Cause for Concern: Heart Disease and Breast Cancer in Young Women
Aakriti Gupta, MD
For ages, myocardial infarction (MI) has been dismissed as an ‘old man’s disease’. However, not only is it one of the leading causes of mortality in old women, it also afflicts a sizeable proportion of young women. Data from the American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that more than 10,000 […]