All our articles on vascular medicine

Vascular medicine plays a key role in understanding the cardiovascular specifics of women, often underestimated in the past. Recent research highlights significant differences in how vascular diseases affect women compared to men, particularly in terms of symptoms, risks and responses to treatment. For example, women are more likely to present atypical symptoms of myocardial infarction, such as intense fatigue or back pain, which can delay diagnosis and treatment.

Moreover, women experience hormonal fluctuations throughout their lives, particularly during pregnancy and menopause, that can influence vascular health. These periods are associated with changes in oestrogen levels, affecting stiffness and function of blood vessels. This can increase the risk of developing vascular diseases such as hypertension and atherosclerosis.

Thus, vascular medicine in women is not limited to treating diseases — it extends to a preventive approach that integrates monitoring of hormonal factors, education on women-specific symptoms, and tailored risk management strategies. This integrated approach is vital to improve health outcomes for women and to promote equitable and effective management of cardiovascular diseases.

AOMI, for walking training to be effective, it must hurt!

What is AOMI? Obliterative arteriopathy of the lower limbs (AOMI) or arteritis is a frequent chronic vascular disease most often of atheromatous origin. It is defined as the narrowing by cholesterol plaques (stenosis) or occlusion of one or more arteries of the lower limbs. These arteries are located [...]

With the new 2021 European Society of Cardiology recommendations on the prevention of cardiovascular disease, most women are (wrongly?) excluded from statin treatment for primary prevention!

For optimal prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), a number of learned societies regularly publish recommendations, whose updates always prompt comments on their applicability in "real life", and comparisons between them. While the epidemiological studies and therapeutic trials selected by the [...]

Pulmonary arterial hypertension: a rare disease

Dr. Sébastien Renart, cardiologist at the CHU de la Timone, is an expert in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare disease that more often affects women! He explains what this disease is, what the warning symptoms are, and how to treat it. Above all, it's important not to confuse [...]

Once upon a time, women had aortic aneurysms

Women are also concerned, as cardiovascular risk has become the leading cause of death in women, and aneurysm is one of them. But aneurysms can easily be detected by ultrasound. All women aged 50 with a first-degree relative with an aneurysm should be screened, as should women aged 60 and over, who [...]

Teleworking: watch out for phlebitis!

Sitting at home, without moving all day, with one video meeting after another, just interrupted by a trip to the kitchen to get something to nibble on, is a health catastrophe. Added to a sedentary lifestyle are stress, isolation, unbalanced diet, sleep disturbed by lack of physical activity and [...]

Poor people are at greater risk of stroke and its after-effects

According to a study by the French Ministry of Health, the frequency of stroke among people in the lowest 25% of the population is 40% higher than among those in the highest 25%. And twice as high between the ages of 45 and 64. Belonging to the lowest 25% of the population increases the risk of [...]

Identifying and supporting women's cardiovascular risk during the 3 hormonal phases: acting together!

A recent study by Axa Prévention Santé, published in September, highlights the fact that 81% of women neglect their own health in favour of that of their nearest and dearest; 70% believe that to be in good health is not to be ill, not to be 'prevented'; 77% regularly put off consultations [...]

ARTERITIS: A WOMEN'S ISSUE?

Obliterative arterial disease of the lower limbs (AOMI), sometimes referred to as "arteritis", corresponds to obstruction of the arteries in the legs, usually by atherosclerotic plaques. It is under-diagnosed and under-treated, particularly in women, with only one in 3 patients seeking medical advice [...]