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CANADIAN WOMEN’S
HEART HEALTH SUMMIT 2023 April 28-29, 2023 Proudly hosted by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute's Canadian Women's Heart Health Centre, Heart & Stroke, the University of British Columbia, Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation and the Leslie Diamond Women's Heart Health Clinic. To learn more visit womensheartsummit.ca.
Women’s Health Is at Risk — It's Time That We Do Better Gaps in awareness, research, diagnosis, and care are creating threats to women’s heart and brain health.
W Christine Faubert, PhD Population Health, Director, Health Equity and Mission Impact, Heart & Stroke
Christine Faubert
omen make up just over half receive the treatments or medications they need. of Canada’s population, yet there’s a continued lack of Driving positive change awareness and understandSocial differences also impact women’s heart and ing around women’s heart brain health. Women often put the needs of others and brain health. Two thirds of heart and stroke before their own and take on most unpaid careclinical research participants are men, and when giving responsibilities, making negative health women are included, an analysis by sex and outcomes more likely. Compounding factors can gender isn’t always done. As a also further affect how women result, approaches to prevenreceive care, including race, tion, diagnosis, treatment, and Indigeneity, income, and where care often don’t equally apply they live. Shockingly, half of to women. Some progress has been women who experience Women’s bodies aren’t the made, but much more needs heart attacks have their same as men’s — and neither to be done to better support symptoms go unrecognized are their lives. Women face women’s heart and brain health. and women are less likely than men to receive the distinct risk factors for heart The Heart and Stroke Foundatreatments or medications disease and stroke, including tion is committed to driving this they need. being at an elevated risk at difchange by raising awareness, ferent points in their lives, like funding more women-focused pregnancy or menopause. Women are also more research, and working to change policies, systems, likely to experience certain types of heart and and attitudes — but we can’t do it alone. brain conditions than men and can present with February is Heart Month and I encourage different signs and symptoms of a heart attack. everyone to join the conversation about women’s heart and brain health so we can live in a world Shockingly, half of the women who experience where every woman gets the care they need. heart attacks have their symptoms go unrecognized, and women are less likely than men to Together, we can beat health inequity.
To learn more, visit heartandstroke.ca/ women.
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