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Women's Heart Bus: a public health emergency! "Act rather than suffer

An edifying report that confirms this medical and societal emergency! Shocking figures! - 90% of participants have at least 2 cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors - 73% were abdominally obese - 67% said they were stressed - 43% had uncontrolled hypertension - 43% have at least 2 [...]

Olive oil is good for the arteries

Researchers recommend that health professionals advise patients to replace certain fats, such as margarine and butter, with olive oil to improve their health. This advice depends not only on the quality of the product, but also on the profile of those who use it! People who consume more olive oil are [...]

Practical Guides

Download guides from this section of our website that will give you tools to actively prevent cardiovascular disease. Use these templates to track your own blood pressure numbers as well as monitor and address your cardiovascular risk factors. Prepare for your appointment and share these tracking [...]

The best resolution for 2022? To move more!

As Pr François Carré puts it, the first thing to do is get back into motion: walk, take the stairs, stand up on the phone, seize every opportunity to be physically active! After a while, you can consider taking up a sport again, very gradually. Jumping rope, for example, for five minutes at a time, [...]

High blood pressure and menopause: test and act to avoid cardiovascular accidents!

Repeated measurement of blood pressure should be routine at every consultation. Ambulatory measurements, outside the doctor's office, should be encouraged, as nocturnal blood pressure screening is particularly cost-effective in the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women. Self-measurement [...]

Telecommuting: the need for a healthy lifestyle

Our sedentary lifestyle, aggravated by telecommuting, has cardiometabolic repercussions. We're seeing weight gain, hypertension, high blood sugar and diabetes... The other complication is phlebitis. It's like passengers on a 10-hour flight who don't move. The iliac vein in the thigh is [...]

Identifying and supporting women's cardiovascular risk during the 3 hormonal phases: acting together!

A recent study by Axa Prévention Santé, published in September, highlights the fact that 81% of women neglect their own health in favour of that of their nearest and dearest; 70% believe that to be in good health is not to be ill, not to be 'prevented'; 77% regularly put off consultations [...]

A pig's heart transplanted into a patient

This first transplant by the team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center is the culmination of an exceptional mobilization of research teams. The transplanted heart comes from a pig farm specifically designed for human transplants. These pigs are bred under strictly sterile [...]