How the Heart Bus Will Protect Women’s Hearts

Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation is launching the Heart Bus to help the most vulnerable women take care of their cardiovascular health and listen to their hearts.

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Why a Heart Bus?
• Because every day, cardiovascular disease kills more than 200 women in France and 25,000 women around the world. We want to tackle this urgent medical and societal crisis by reducing cardiovascular mortality. We focus on prevention rather than treatment because eight out of ten deaths are preventable!
• Because many vulnerable women aren’t getting good care: they’re not listening to themselves, not taking good enough care of themselves and generally have a very negative self-image leading them to neglect or even mistreat themselves.
• Because they don’t have enough information or access to certain healthcare professionals like cardiologists or gynecologists, they are usually under diagnosed, undertreated, insufficiently monitored and at high risk of recurrence and death after their first cardiac event.

It’s urgent that these women get back into a structured gynecardiology care pathway for top-notch preventive medicine.

How will the bus work?

An informational appointment with dedicated screening will be offered to all women in vulnerable situations, in their neighborhood.

Each Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation-branded bus will be equipped for cardiovascular screening comprising seven key steps:
• Welcome from a health professional
• Blood pressure measurement with an automatic arm monitor
• Weight and abdominal circumference measurement
• Diabetes and dyslipidemia screening
• Electrocardiogram screening for abnormalities (with smartphone electrodes)
• Gynecology, diet, tobacco and addiction screening
• Summary of the screenings by a health professional and pre-filled letter for the woman’s primary doctor if there is an abnormality in the cardiovascular screening and/or if gynecology follow-up care has been interrupted so they can be reintegrated into a care pathway.

Wardrobe for the Heart

To fund the Heart Bus, Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation will be hosting a Wardrobe for the Heart evening in spring 2021 in a large Parisian venue that will be livestreamed online. Clothing and other items donated by celebrities (clothing, bags, fashion accessories, swimsuits, shoes, jewelry and more) will be auctioned. This evening, organized by a well-known Parisian auction house, will raise funds that will go entirely to funding the Heart Bus.

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