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A guided tour of the Bus du Coeur

Join us on the Bus and stroll through the Health and Well-being Village... You'll hear from women who have tried screening, as well as those involved in preventive health care. With comments from Claire Mounier-Vehier and Thierry Drilhon, co-founders of Agir pour le Coeur des Femmes, Martine [...]

A Bus to the Heart of Precariousness

For him, the women who took part did so with enthusiasm, in a voluntary and rewarding process. To the 7 screening steps, he added an 8th in Avignon, vascular screening by ultrasound of the abdominal aorta. This examination provided an opportunity for vascular physicians to raise awareness of [...]

Le Bus du Coeur in the JDD

Le Journal du Dimanche reported on the launch of the Heart Bus. In her article, Zoé Lastennet quotes The Lancet experts, who believe that cardiovascular disease in women is under-studied, under-recognized, under-diagnosed and under-treated. Dr Eleonore Hebbar, cardiologist at Lille University [...]

Avignon acts for the Heart of Avignonnaises

The Bus du Coeur will be launched in Avignon on October 13. It will also visit Lille, Marseille, La Rochelle and Saint-Etienne, 3 days per city, to offer screening for cardiovascular disease to women in precarious situations and prevention advice to all others. The aim of the Agir pour le Cœur des [...]

The Bus du Coeur's stopover in Marseille

From October 6 to 8, 225 underprivileged women received cardio-gynecological screening on the Bus. This was a great collective initiative, run in conjunction with the Marseilles City Council and numerous national and local partners. Let's take care of ourselves, because precariousness is not [...]

Bus du Coeur: a successful launch in Lille

The Heart Bus was launched in Lille on September 29, World Heart Day, in the presence of a number of personalities, including Lille mayor Martine Aubry and Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, founding member of the Heart Bus. During the 3 days in Lille, 225 women in precarious situations were able to [...]

ARTERITIS: A WOMEN'S ISSUE?

Obliterative arterial disease of the lower limbs (AOMI), sometimes referred to as "arteritis", corresponds to obstruction of the arteries in the legs, usually by atherosclerotic plaques. It is under-diagnosed and under-treated, particularly in women, with only one in 3 patients seeking medical advice [...]

The arterial pearl necklace: not so rare!

Fibromuscular dysplasia is a rare vascular disease affecting medium-caliber arteries, in particular the renal arteries and internal suprabulbar carotid arteries (can you simplify this for the general public). The prevalence of fibromuscular dysplasia in the general population is less than 0.5%, but [...]