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Why All Women Must Have the Right to Health

For International Women’s Day, Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation is emphasizing why women in high-risk situations must have the right to access healthcare. They are the first ones impacted by the economic consequences of this global health crisis. This growing risk has a significant [...]

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Let’s Talk About Broken Hearts on Valentine’s Day

Repeated lockdowns, isolation, financial uncertainty, lack of plans and social disconnection due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been quite an ordeal for us over the past year. Many people feel isolated in the reduced environments we’re living in. We have few external connections and worry about our [...]

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How Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy Makes Maternal Mortality a Hundred Times Higher

Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation has compiled a list of 10 frequently asked questions for this important time in a woman’s life: before conception, during pregnancy, and after delivery with a special focus on women who already have a cardiovascular disease before becoming pregnant. [...]

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How You Can Get in Shape this Summer
How to Alert, Anticipate and Act for Your Cardiovascular Health

Alert after a period that was hard on our lifestyles “Lockdown was a time when a third of French people gained weight,” says Prof. Claire Mounier-Vehier, MD, cofounder of Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes) and a cardiologist at University Hospital [...]

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Why Women Shouldn’t Wait to Get Their Cardiovascular Disease Symptoms Checked Out

Patients have stopped going to hospitals and clinics in the past few weeks. Yet chronic diseases haven’t gone away, and symptoms are still occurring. Patients are ignoring them and waiting until the last minute to see a doctor. Professor Claire Mounier-Vehier, cardiologist and head of the vascular [...]

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