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Why Your Heart Isn’t Sweet on Sugar

What are we talking about exactly? We’re talking about sugars that makes things sweet, found in sugary foods and beverages that are high in sucrose and fructose. We’re also talking about starch found in bread (and cereals). Even potatoes aren’t totally innocent: they contain glucose. When are [...]

Three Minutes to Convince Viewers…

Prof. Mounier-Vehier was a guest on the Chroniques Santé show on TV WEO to explain why it is important to change the stereotypes about cardiovascular disease in women. There are still major biases related to cardiovascular disease in women that lead to many lost opportunities. Insufficient [...]

Prof. Claire Mounier-Vehier Included in LinkedIn Top Voices 2020

LinkedIn unveiled its Top Voices list in November 2020. It featured the 25 most prominent contributors in 2020 in France on the largest professional network in the world and included Valérie Pécresse, Anne Hidalgo, Bruno Le Maire, Julia De Funès, Nicolas Dufourcq (CEO of BPI France), and Olivier [...]

How Drug Tolerance Differs for Women

This is the main conclusion of a large American study just published in Biology of Sex Differences, which analyzed literature data from more than 5,400 references to determine whether gender differences in pharmacokinetic parameters predict differences in the occurrence of adverse events in men and [...]

Why Regular Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Developing High Blood Pressure

Researchers have just reported the results of a large study of more than 140,000 adults in Taiwan followed for an average of 5 years that show that regular physical activity reduces the risk of becoming hypertensive, even when air pollution is at moderately high levels. The results show that [...]

Book Review: 100 Questions and Responses on Contraception

The vast majority of women use contraception at some point in their lives. The method they choose varies based on their stage in life. Various hormonal and non-hormonal options are available. It’s important to know the advantages and potential disadvantages of each contraceptive method in order to [...]

Expert Consensus on Hypertension and Pregnancy

While gestational hypertension is a frequent pathology that develops during pregnancy (1 in 10 pregnancies on average), the healthcare field still isn’t equipped to manage it well. In France, there are no formal care pathways that would specify the role of each health professional while also [...]

Expert consensus from SFHTA on Hormones, Hypertension and Women

French Society of Hypertension has established a partnership with Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation to alert women with high blood pressure at three key hormone stages. A tangible application of this partnership, the expert consensus entitled “HTA, Hormone et Femmes” (Hypertension, [...]