Community Events

5km SCADaddle Walk for SCAD research

Oct 27

All are welcome to the SCADaddle walk in Camden on Sunday, October 27th, at 10 am, taking place at the Camden Bike Track.

SCAD are hoping to rally as many people as possible to participate in the walk!

What is SCAD??

SCAD stands for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. During SCAD, a sudden tear occurs within the layers of one or more arteries to the heart. This tear blocks blood flow, which can lead to cardiac arrest and sometimes death. The average age of SCAD sufferers is just 42, and 80% of sufferers are women.

Heart disease is a leading cause of death in Australian women, killing almost three times more women than breast cancer each year. Yet funding for heart research doesn’t match those trends.

Professor Jason Kovacic of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, which is leading Australia’s first and largest research program into SCAD said: “Until recently, SCAD was considered a rare disease, with little known about its causes or why it mainly affects women. But we are finally starting to understand its triggers and have recently discovered 16 key genes associated with SCAD.”