The heart attack? A “man’s” disease. Medication ? Tested on men. In medicine, the male body remains the norm… When will we really take care of women?
A long candy pink vehicle, a color chosen provocatively, has been criss-crossing the roads of France since September 2021. The “women’s heart bus” proposes to subject those who wish to minor preventive examinations – measurement of blood pressure, screening for diabetes, electrocardiogram, etc. Objective: to ensure that the interested parties are well, but also and above all to alert them because cardio- have become, in a few years, the first cause of female mortality in our country, as in the whole world. Far ahead of breast cancer, responsible in France for thirty-three deaths per day… compared to two hundred related to cardiovascular diseases (source: Public Health France).
Who knows ? “Not them anyway, who imagine, like most people, that heart attacks are a typically male disease, suffered by men who are stressed, taken up with their work and all their responsibilities, observes cardiologist Claire Mounier-Vehier, at the initiative of this pioneering project. Yet women are also under pressure. They work and also support the famous “double day” and “mental load” which we want to recognize today. How could this not have a medical impact? »
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