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How Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy Makes Maternal Mortality a Hundred Times Higher

To celebrate World Heart Day on September 29, Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation is highlighting the importance of cardiovascular care for women during pregnancy, something that is still too infrequently taken into account. If a woman with a cardiac disease doesn’t receive appropriate care during pregnancy, the risk of complications for her baby is 15 times higher and her risk of death is 100 times higher.

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Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation has compiled a list of 10 frequently asked questions for this important time in a woman’s life: before conception, during pregnancy, and after delivery with a special focus on women who already have a cardiovascular disease before becoming pregnant. Cardiovascular complications during pregnancy also increase the risk of developing a cardiovascular disease later in life, especially at menopause, so it’s critical that these women receive support and specific follow-up during this period. Download the press release

 

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Why Women Shouldn’t Wait to Get Their Cardiovascular Disease Symptoms Checked Out

Patients have stopped going to hospitals and clinics in the past few weeks. Yet chronic diseases haven’t gone away, and symptoms are still occurring. Patients are ignoring them and waiting until the last minute to see a doctor. Professor Claire Mounier-Vehier, cardiologist and head of the vascular [...]

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How You Can Get in Shape this Summer
How to Alert, Anticipate and Act for Your Cardiovascular Health

Alert after a period that was hard on our lifestyles “Lockdown was a time when a third of French people gained weight,” says Prof. Claire Mounier-Vehier, MD, cofounder of Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes) and a cardiologist at University Hospital [...]

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Why All Women Must Have the Right to Health

For International Women’s Day, Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation is emphasizing why women in high-risk situations must have the right to access healthcare. They are the first ones impacted by the economic consequences of this global health crisis. This growing risk has a significant [...]

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