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How Vasomotor Symptoms in Menopause are Linked with Cardiovascular Events

Christine Clerc

“Women have always been taught that their role is to ‘give life’ and to protect and save the lives of others: parents, companions, children, friends, neighbors. No one imagined that they might also have a fragile heart. Don’t women have the strongest hearts? Until the day it was discovered [...]

Why We’re Taking the Heart Bus to Women in Vulnerable Situations

In a podcast for Pharma radio, Prof. Claire Mounier-Véhier, MD, who cofounded Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes) with Thierry Drilhon, shared what the foundation will be doing with some big cities in autumn 2021 to support women using a gynecardiology care [...]

Prof. André Vacheron

SUPPORT: “I’ve been convinced by and very involved in preventive medicine for more than 50 years, so I’m set on supporting the remarkable work of Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes). It’s a medical and societal priority that we can and must act on [...]

How to Live Your Best Life in Menopause

The drop in hormones can trigger symptoms that vary from one woman to another. While menopause isn’t an illness, it can expose women to various diseases, including cardiovascular disease. This means screening for risk factors is a public health issue. Should you take hormone replacement therapy? [...]

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the Most Common Genetic Heart Disease

The symptoms of HCM vary widely. Some people may have palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness or loss of consciousness. But in the majority of cases, this disease causes few to no functional issues. This means the condition is usually discovered during a routine medical exam using an [...]

Donate to Protect Every Woman’s Heart

Our goal is to save the lives of 10,000 women in five years by taking action through three major strategies: - Alert people about cardiovascular disease, a societal and medical emergency that’s the leading cause of death for women in France and around the world - Anticipate using proactive [...]

How Cardiac Rehab Helps Women Heal Faster

In this article, Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation highlights how important and necessary it is for women to go through cardiac rehabilitation when they’ve had a cardiovascular event or are at high risk of having one. Dr. Natalia Kpogbemabou, cardiologist and rehabilitation physician [...]