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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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How Drug Tolerance Differs for Women
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This is the main conclusion of a large American study just published in Biology of Sex Differences, which analyzed literature data from more than 5,400 references to determine whether gender differences in pharmacokinetic parameters predict differences in the occurrence of adverse events in men and [...]
Book Review: Mon combat pour le Cœur des Femmes (My Fight for Women’s Hearts)
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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 [...]
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Do everything we can to educate and alert women about their cardiovascular health at three key hormone stages: contraception, pregnancy and perimenopause. Boost active prevention efforts by giving all women access to cardiovascular screening and care in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary healthcare [...]
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