The Women's Heart Bus returns to Lille on September 21, 2022

The Women's Heart Bus sets up in Lille on Wednesday September 21, in partnership with the city council and all local healthcare players. After visiting 15 cities since its launch in 2021, this mobile screening and prevention operation - the largest ever carried out in France - is back on the road for 6 new stops.

This major initiative is being developed by the Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes endowment fund, whose aim is to save the lives of 10,000 women over 5 years.

Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death among women in France, killing 200 French women every day, or 75,000 women a year - the equivalent of the population of Cannes. And yet cardiovascular disease is preventable in 8 out of 10 cases, through screening and appropriate treatment.

The Women's Heart Bus reaches out to the most at-risk populations, women in vulnerable situations, offering them free screening and reintegrating them into a dedicated health pathway.

"For the second time, the city of Lille is taking part in a preventive health initiative aimed at women, thanks to "Agir pour le cœur des femmes". Women often forget their health to look after others. This time, with the "Bus du Coeur des Femmes", their health is at the heart of the action, in a non-aggressive and even joyful way, thanks to the mobilization of the health professionals present. With the health village, the city of Lille is proud to be part of this initiative. Marie-Christine Staniec-Wavrant, Deputy Mayor in charge of Health


"This year, the Women's Heart Bus is visiting 15 cities to screen over 4,000 women. We're delighted to be back in Lille, where it all began last September. The strong mobilization of the city's health and social services will have a real impact on all the women who need it most. Our mission: to alert about social and medical emergencies, to anticipate through positive prevention and to act by mobilizing a local health ecosystem." Thierry Drilhon, co-founder of Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes, corporate executive and director

"As a native of Lille, this step has a very special flavour for me. The study we carried out among women in vulnerable situations during the 2021 Women's Heart Bus tour showed that 90% of them have at least two cardiovascular risk factors. This means that, sooner or later, they will become ill if nothing is done to control these risk factors. The mission of the Women's Heart Bus is to give them back the means to take care of their health, by integrating them into a cardio-gynecological care pathway with local healthcare professionals, all volunteers, mobilized around the cause." Professor Claire Mounier-Véhier, co-founder of Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes, cardiologist and vascular physician at the Institut Cœur Poumon at Lille University Hospital.

A LAUNCH CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 AT 12 NOON ON THE SITE OF THE WOMEN'S HEART BUS, IN THE PRESENCE OF

- Marie-Christine Staniec-Wavrant, deputy mayor in charge of healthcare
- Pr Claire Mounier Véhier and Thierry Drilhon, co-founders of Agir pour le Cœur des
Femmes
- Milana Sisamouth, Deputy Director, CPAM Lille-Douai
- Angélique Bizoux-Coffignier, Deputy General Manager, Lille University Hospital
- Virginie Fillon, guest speaker at Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes


THE SYSTEM: BUS DU CŒUR DES FEMMES AND VILLAGE BIEN-ÊTRE & SANTÉ

Pre-registration with the services of the host town organizes access to the screening program, which lasts an average of one hour and fifteen minutes. Follow-up is then organized with the help of the Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie and local health professionals. The aim is to put these at-risk women back on an optimized care pathway. Appointments for specialized consultations are pre-booked for them, and a summary letter is sent to their GP.

A Health and Well-being Village, freely accessible to all, provides a further introduction to prevention, with numerous advice stands (nutrition, family planning, life-saving gestures, women's words, respirology & stress management...).

Screenings are carried out by local volunteer health professionals, with two to three months' preparatory work to forge links with local players and build up an effective prevention network. Before each stage, they receive training in the specificities of women's cardiovascular risk.

In addition, the Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie, which is contacted in each town, helps to bring certain women's entitlements up to date, and to find them an attending physician if necessary. Women can also take advantage of health support services offered by the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie's health examination centers, and more specifically in Lille by the Institut Pasteur.

From September 21 to 23 at Place Rihour, the Bus du Coeur des Femmes will be offering a 10-step screening program for women in vulnerable situations, free of charge upon registration by telephone on 03 20 49 56 14 :

1. welcome: presentation of the route and awareness-raising documents, handing over of the screening booklet,
2. interview with a doctor to identify cardiovascular history and warning symptoms
3. cardiovascular risk: blood pressure measurements
4. metabolic risk: weight, height and abdominal circumference measurements, capillary glucose and lipid measurements
5 Addictology: screening interview (alcohol, smoking, etc.)
6 Gynecology: interview and identification of high-risk situations, with a gyneco-obstetrical component.
7 Assessment: summary of screening with a doctor, collection of the screening booklet and proposal of a course of treatment if necessary (letter to the GP, appointments with a cardiovascular doctor and/or gynecologist or midwife, etc.).
8. resting electrocardiogram
9. arterial ultrasound screening for women most at risk
10. a bag containing health information sheets (prevention brochure) and an arm blood pressure monitor (with a demonstration of how it works) supplied by Axa Prévention

In the Health & Well-Being village adjoining the bus, stands will be open to all over the 3 days. These information, prevention and well-being stands will be manned by health professionals, partners and local associations, including :

- Health promoters
- CPAM Lille Douai - prevention
- GEM "La Belle Journée
- CREHPSY Hauts-De-France
- M for Mutuelle
- Etablissement Français du Sang
- Fondation DigestScience
- Bio en Hauts-De-France
- PLEMaRa - Plateforme Lilloise d'Expertise Maladies Rares (Lille Platform for Rare Disease Expertise)
- AFDIAG - French Gluten Intolerant Association
- AESIO Mutuelle
- Clinique La Mitterie
- Gestes qui sauvent
- Fitbit for individualized sports coaching


PRACTICAL INFO AUDIENCE
Dates : Wednesday, September 21 to Friday, September 23, 2022
Times: 9am to 12:30pm and 1:30pm to 5pm
Address : Place Rihour, 59800, Lille



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