How Vasomotor Symptoms in Menopause are Linked with Cardiovascular Events

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 [...]

Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation’s Expert Scientific and Medical Ambassadors

Every day, Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation shares its informational messages encouraging people to Alert, Anticipate and Act on the risks of cardiovascular events for women during the three key hormonal phases (contraception, pregnancy, menopause). How does it work? Health [...]

Book Review: Mon combat pour le Cœur des Femmes (My Fight for Women’s Hearts)

Publications

This book tells the story of growing awareness and mobilizing collectively to fight cardiovascular disease in women. Do we have to continue dying at 45 years old from an undiagnosed heart attack? Is it acceptable that women are diagnosed late? Can we tolerate having to amputate a 35-year-old’s leg [...]