{"id":237219,"date":"2026-05-15T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/myh9-gene-may-help-explain-heart-artery-plaques-more-often-seen-in-women"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:08:08","slug":"myh9-gene-may-help-explain-heart-artery-plaques-more-often-seen-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/myh9-gene-may-help-explain-heart-artery-plaques-more-often-seen-in-women","title":{"rendered":"MYH9 gene may help explain heart artery plaques more often seen in women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/myh9-gene-may-help-explain-heart-artery-plaques-more-often-seen-in-women2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at UCLA Health have identified a key gene that may help explain why women are more likely than men to develop a certain type of artery plaque linked to heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/full\/10.1161\/CIRCRESAHA.125.326941\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Circulation Research<\/i>,<\/a> investigators found that a gene known as MYH9 plays an important role in the formation of fibrous plaques. These buildups in the arteries are generally more stable than those more prone to rupture, but they can still lead to heart attacks and other serious cardiac events through plaque erosion.<\/p>\n<p>Atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque in the arteries, is the underlying cause of most heart disease. Research has mainly focused on unstable plaques, which can rupture and trigger heart attacks. Fibrous, scar-like plaques tend to have thicker caps and different biological characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at UCLA Health have identified a key gene that may help explain why women are more likely than men to develop a certain type of artery plaque linked to heart disease. In a study published in Circulation Research, investigators found that a gene known as MYH9 plays an important role in the formation of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}