Maternal stroke history tied to women's heart attack risk

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

If you're a woman and your mother had a stroke, you may have a risk of heart attack in addition to a higher risk of stroke, according to new research on family history and heart disease published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics.

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