Main causes of heart failure are ischemic heart disease (myocardial infarction) and primary cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle (myocardium) that can be genetic. Around 30% of transplant patients are women. Among these women, there is a rare but specific cause: peripartum heart disease [...]
Early first aid intervention is a key condition in improving the survival rate of individuals experiencing cardiac arrest. French statistics show that about 70% of cardiac arrests happen in front of someone else, but that only 47% of those people provide first aid. In comparison, in the early 2000s, [...]
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 [...]