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How Vasomotor Symptoms in Menopause are Linked with Cardiovascular Events

Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes) is alerting women about an indicator of cardiovascular risk that should encourage them to get a cardiovascular check-up as they enter menopause.

Our gynecology experts (Delfany Mardhel and Geneviève Plu-Bureau from Port-Royal hospital, Paris) have analyzed six studies that evaluate connections between vasomotor symptoms in menopause and the risk of cardiovascular events.

How Vasomotor Symptoms in Menopause are Linked with Cardiovascular Events


 
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What General Practitioners Say About High Blood Pressure Prevention, Screening and Treatment in France in 2019

Health Professionals

High blood pressure is the number one chronic illness in the world. In France, an estimated 30% of the adult population has high blood pressure. It is one of the leading cardiovascular risk factors and the main risk factor for stroke. This illness can be prevented by adopting healthy behaviors like [...]

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We must act now—What if it were you?

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“We must act now. What if it were you?” Fifty women aged 22 to 84 share their stories of the shock of their cardiovascular events in a book published by the Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes Foundation. Download it for free by clicking here Learning by example draws on the strength of lived [...]

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European Society of Hypertension 2021 recommendations

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The Société Française d'Hypertension Artérielle (SFHTA), in partnership with the European Society of Hypertension (ESH), has translated into French the 2021 recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension for the measurement of blood pressure in and out of the office. This step is [...]

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