October 11, 2025
Check out the following SCAD related articles recently published in Mayo Clinic News Network.
Mayo Clinic study reveals hidden causes of heart attacks in younger adults, especially women.
A new Mayo Clinic study finds that many heart attacks in people under 65 — especially women — are caused by factors other than clogged arteries, challenging long-standing assumptions about how heart attacks occur in younger populations. Click HERE to review the article.
You can find more specifics on the study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)
Awareness of SCAD continues to grow as variations of Mayo Clinic’s article on heart attacks in younger adults was also included in the Times of India and Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia.
The brain-heart connection: Mayo Clinic expert explains powerful tie that works both ways
Dr. Mohmad Alkhouli, an Interventional Cardiologist, is part of the Mayo Clinic Heart Brain Clinic. He explains that Mayo Clinic is beginning to see the heart and brain not as separate organs, but as a single, dynamic network.
Conditions with a brain-heart connection include spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) and stress-induced cardiopathy (SICM), also known as broken heart syndrome. Click HERE to review the article.