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How to Live Your Best Life in Menopause

Struggling with hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, weight gain or low libido? An Enquête de Santé episode on France 5 provided comprehensive information to better understand and live through this complicated period.

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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? What are the most effective natural methods to live your best life during menopause? We know one thing for sure: menopause is the time that reveals how important it is to take care of yourself. The report features a wide variety of presenters, including Prof. Geneviève Plu-Bureau from Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation.

https://www.allodocteurs.fr/emissions/enquete-de-sante/enquete-de-sante-du-23-02-2021_28073.html

 

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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 [...]

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Are medications sexist?

Erving Zucker and his colleagues at University of California Berkeley conducted research in more than 5,000 publications and focused on 86 medications on the U.S. market administered to men and women. At equivalent doses, 76 of them had a higher concentration in women’s blood than in men’s blood, [...]

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