Examining Heart Attacks in Young Women

Completed

Conditions studied: Acute Myocardial Infarction

In brief

Heart disease and heart attacks pose a serious health risk to young women, and women tend to experience less successful recoveries after a heart attack than men do. This study will examine various factors that may predispose women to heart attacks and to poor recovery after a heart attack. The differences between men and women in the medical care that they receive following a heart attack will also be studied.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00597922

Run by

Yale University

People needed

2985

Starts

2007-09-01

Expected to finish

2013-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Elevated cardiac markers within 24 hours of arrival at initial or enrolling institution
• Supporting evidence suggestive of a heart attack

You may not qualify if…

• Previously enrolled in the VIRGO study
• Does not speak English or Spanish
• Too ill to interview
• Current prisoner

Where it is running

• Providence Hospital — Mobile, Alabama, United States
• Sharp Gross Hospital — La Mesa, California, United States
• Saddleback Memorial Medical Center — Laguna Hills, California, United States
• Long Beach Memorial Medical Center — Long Beach, California, United States
• University of Southern California — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/PRCC Cardiology Research — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Memorial Medical Center (Sutter Gould Medical Foundation) — Modesto, California, United States
• Sutter Medical Center Sacramento — Sacramento, California, United States
• Mercy General Hospital — Sacramento, California, United States
• California Medical Center — San Francisco, California, United States
• Stanford University Medical Center — Stanford, California, United States
• St Joseph's Medical Center — Stockton, California, United States
• Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center — Thousand Oaks, California, United States
• Torrance Memorial Medical Center — Torrance, California, United States
• Denver Health Medical Center — Denver, Colorado, United States
• Centura Research Center — Denver, Colorado, United States
• Bridgeport Hospital — Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
• St Francis Hospital and Medical Center — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Yale University School of Medicine — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Hospital of St. Raphael — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Citrus Memorial Health Systems — Inverness, Florida, United States
• Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Baptist Hospital of Miami — Miami, Florida, United States
• Orlando Health — Orlando, Florida, United States
• Pepin Heart Research Institute — Tampa, Florida, United States
• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.