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Book Recommendation: Happiness for Your Heart

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Nearly 400 people die every day from cardiovascular disease in France, adding up to 150,000 every year.
Stress, anxiety, depression, anger and fatigue are well-known risk factors.
One way to protect your heart is to cultivate small and big moments of happiness.
In this book, cardiologist Jean-Pierre Houppe explains how to protect your health with information drawn from a number of recent studies.

https://www.furet.com/livres/le-coeur-du-bonheur-jean-pierre-houppe-9782100794430.html
https://livre.fnac.com/a13368165/Jean-Pierre-Houppe-Le-coeur-du-bonheur-J-ai-decide-d-etre-heureux-pour-eviter-l-infarctus

 

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Our Mission at Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Coeur des Femmes)

Our Work

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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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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Why We Created a Foundation Devoted to Women’s Hearts

Organization

We cannot allow cardiovascular diseases to continue being a symbol of the inequality between women and men in the health arena. Every day in France, they kill 200 women and treatment is often delayed essentially because people are ignorant of the reality. Yet eight out of every 10 cardiovascular [...]

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