Director of the Muscle Health Research Centre, Professor Christopher Perry along with Associate Professor Ali Abdul-Sater from the School of Kinesiology & Health Science among York researchers and grad students who identified early cardiac risks in muscular dystrophy

The collaborative research study shows that fibrosis - scar tissues that replaces damaged muscle - develops mostly in the right ventricle and left atrium during early stages of the diseased in a preclinical model. The other two chambers of the heart showed no signs of damage at that time. The full story is available in YFile.