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 [...]
Prof. Claire Mounier-Vehier and her team have been developing the Cœur–Artères–Femmes (Heart–Arteries–Women) integrated care pathway at University Hospital of Lille’s heart and lung institute for five years. The pathway has four objectives: - monitor medical care with discussions on [...]
Christine, age 46, died from a cardiac arrest on her daughter’s 14th birthday, which was also the day before her oldest son’s wedding. She hadn’t been feeling well that evening, but didn’t say anything to her kids because she didn’t want to ruin the party. But her death could have been [...]