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Hormonal treatment of menopause

In practice, we need to distinguish between: - Climacteric syndrome associating hot flashes, night sweats, sleep or mood disorders, joint or muscle pain, vaginal dryness making intercourse painful... - longer-term pathologies, such as increased cardiovascular risk and bone fragility [...]

Femmes : les oubliées de la santé - on France 5, Tuesday, April 20 at 8:50 p.m.

Pr Claire Mounier-Vehier invites you to join her on France 5 this Tuesday, April 20 at 8:50 pm in the documentary "Femmes : les oubliées de la santé" (Women: the forgotten health care professionals) directed by Véronique Preault. Women are less well diagnosed than men, and less quickly treated. [...]

Jean-Noël Fabiani-Salmon

The forgotten woman's heart? This question is not the title of a hit TV series or a romantic soap opera, but one of the most poignant issues in cardiology today. It's as if the major epidemiological studies focused on 50-year-old men had "forgotten" women's hearts. And it is with [...]

Detecting the signs of myocardial infarction

The most common symptoms in men and the most common additional symptoms in women. Be particularly vigilant when you combine several risk factors: smoking, stress, physical inactivity high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol... Download poster

Protecting yourself against cardiovascular disease

What are cardiovascular diseases? How can you avoid them by improving your daily lifestyle? How can I stay in good health for as long as possible? Some simple answers in this brochure to download.

Covid-19 vaccination and risk of thrombosis

Phlebitis, or deep vein thrombosis, is the formation of a blood clot in a vein, mainly in the lower limbs. When a fragment of this clot breaks loose, it can migrate to the lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism. The risk of phlebitis and pulmonary embolism is 1 to 2 cases per 1,000 inhabitants per year [...]

You said 5 fruits and vegetables a day

Everyone knows this slogan, but few understand it clearly (5 cherries, one macedoine, 5 potatoes, is that all right?) and even fewer actually apply it. The prestigious cardiology journal Circulation has just published a very interesting study by Harvard's no less famous nutritional epidemiology [...]