Three Minutes to Convince Viewers…

Prof. Mounier-Vehier was a guest on the Chroniques Santé show on TV WEO to explain why it is important to change the stereotypes about cardiovascular disease in women.

There are still major biases related to cardiovascular disease in women that lead to many lost opportunities. Insufficient screening for risk factors and often atypical symptoms cause diagnostic errors with detrimental delays in treatment.

Now that women’s roles have changed in society, they have complex lives that force them to juggle professional and household responsibilities. This exposes more young women to harmful lifestyles, which in turn contributes to early development of cardiovascular disease. The whirlwind of professional and family obligations they have to face every day makes it difficult to find time to take care of themselves. They tend to overlook their symptoms and delay medical treatment.

It’s critical to better understand what makes cardiovascular disease unique in women, adapt treatments to their physiology and pharmacodynamics, provide screening at three hormone stages (contraception, pregnancy, menopause), promote targeted research, and combine all available resources so that every woman has the same level of information and quality of treatment.

We need to act before it’s too late.