Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Nearly 9 million women die each year from these diseases. To combat this scourge, a movement was born in the United States in 2005: Go Red for Women. It is now relayed in around twenty other countries, including France.
This is how today, April 7, on the occasion of Red Day, women were invited to dress in red and post their photo all dressed in red, on social networks (without forgetting the hashtag #GoRedForWomen!), to alert the general public to the risk of cardiovascular disease in women.
Cardiovascular diseases are often considered, wrongly, as the prerogative of man. This misconception is contradicted by the latest data available in France, which show that cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of female mortality. They are responsible for nearly one in three deaths (32%) ahead of cancers, and kill 7 times more women than breast cancer.
If they kill so much, it’s because they are often underdiagnosed and that there is a real ignorance of the risk factors. lack of knowledge of risk factors in women. Many doctors are unaware that a woman whose one parent has had a heart attack is twice as likely as a man to have one in turn.
This is why women, including young women, should not hesitate to consult urgently in the face of discomfort in the chest but also in the face of dizziness, shortness of breath, nausea, high perspiration or even unexplained fatigue. These are all signs that could indicate a heart attack.
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