Cardiovascular disease kills 200 women every day in France and 25,000 worldwide. These deaths, linked to changes in women’s lifestyles, are nevertheless most often avoidable, because prevention can significantly reduce mortality linked to strokes and heart attacks.
Do you know that from an anatomical point of view the heart of women is different from that of men ? What are the warning signs? What are the special attentions to pay to your heart when you are a woman? What are good habits to adopt?
In Hello Doctor, Geraldine Mayr and the Dr Jimmy Mohamed receive the Professor Claire Mounier-Vehiercardiologist at the University Hospital of Lille and co-founder of the association “Agir pour le cœur des femmes”, which carries out preventive actions, in particular through the “Bus du Cœur” which meets women in precarious situations.
A heart to watch
Claire Mounier-Vehier tells us about the characteristics of women’s hearts, including a smaller weight and height, and a increased sensitivity to stress compared to that of men. To fight against the increase in deaths linked to cardiovascular disease that has been observed for several decades, it recalls that prevention is essential. This prevention is essential so that, on the one hand, everyone can adopt good habits (stop smoking, eat a balanced diet, move more and manage stress) and, on the other hand, know how to react as soon as first worrying signs.
Questions from listeners
In the second part of the show, Dr. Jimmy Mohamed answers questions that listeners ask him. Thus Cécile de Noirmoutier wonders if grandmother’s remedies are effective in curing a burn. Noémie d’Amiens wonders about aspirin, can you take aspirin for all kinds of pain? Marine, on the networks, left this question: “I deworm my children before each start of the school year, the whole family goes there. Is this a good initiative? »
Hello Doctor answers all these questions, also evokes the dangers of sweeteners, the question of the toxicity of school supplies and gives valuable advice on these subjects.
After stopping in Cannes, Privas, La Rochelle, Pessac, Toulouse, Calais, Maubeuge, Mulhouse and Six-Fours-les-Plages, the “Bus du Coeur” of the association “Agir pour le cœur des femmes” continues its course and will be in Le Havre on September 13 and 14, in Lille from September 21 to 23, in Paris from October 12 to 14, in Marseille from October 18 to 20, in La Baule/Saint-Nazaire from November 16 to 18 and in Bobigny from November 23 to 25, 2022.