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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.

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Why It’s Urgent to Act to Against Cardiovascular Disease, Leading Cause of Maternal Death

Health Professionals

It is estimated that 150,000 women of childbearing age in France have a cardiovascular disease. If these patients don’t receive appropriate care during pregnancy, the risk of complications for their children is 15 times higher and their risk of death is 100 times higher. Pregnancy is a true [...]

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What’s New in the 2020 European Recommendations on Atrial Fibrillation?

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Epidemiology AF is a burden that is estimated to affect between two and four percent of the adult population These numbers are constantly increasing all around the world, which poses a growing problem for health systems. As an example, in Europe, it’s estimated that a 55-year-old individual [...]

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Expert Consensus on Hypertension and Pregnancy

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While gestational hypertension is a frequent pathology that develops during pregnancy (1 in 10 pregnancies on average), the healthcare field still isn’t equipped to manage it well. In France, there are no formal care pathways that would specify the role of each health professional while also [...]

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