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Why You Shouldn’t Spend Too Much Time Sitting or Lying Down During the Day

For women ages 50 to 79, the more sedentary they are during the day, the higher their risk of being hospitalized for heart failure. This finding came from an epidemiological study conducted with more than 80,000 menopausal women with an average age of 63. Participants reported how much time they spent [...]

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Why We’re Committed to Women’s Heart Health

Two hundred women die every day from cardiovascular disease in France and 25,000 die worldwide. Stroke, heart attacks and heart failure could be avoided in 8 out of 10 cases by adopting a healthy lifestyle. Prof. Mounier-Vehier also shared prevention tips that we don’t talk about often enough, such [...]

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Are medications sexist?

Erving Zucker and his colleagues at University of California Berkeley conducted research in more than 5,000 publications and focused on 86 medications on the U.S. market administered to men and women. At equivalent doses, 76 of them had a higher concentration in women’s blood than in men’s blood, [...]

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