It is the leading cause of death among women: to fight against cardiovascular illnessesa bus sets up at Toulouse until April 22, 2022 and offers free prevention and screening operations.

200 deaths per day

Every day, in France200 women die as a result of a cardiovascular disease, while these are preventable in eight out of ten cases.

“The Women’s Heart Bus goes out to meet the public, the most at risk, women in vulnerable situations, by offering them free screening and reintegrating them into a dedicated health course”, explain the teams ofActing for the hearts of womenthe association that oversees this meeting.

In the square of Maourine

This is the first year that this women’s bus has stopped in the Pink City: it will be present at the maourin square until Friday. By meeting women in vulnerable situations in order to offer them seven-step screening, health professionals hope to prevent cardiovascular disease as much as possible.

“The study we conducted among women in vulnerable situations during the 2021 Bus du Coeur des Femmes tour showed that 90% of them have at least two cardiovascular risk factors. This means that ‘ in the more or less long term, they will enter into the disease if nothing is done to control these risk factors. The mission of the Bus is to give these women the means to take care of their health, by integrating them into a course of cardiogynecological care with local health professionals, mobilized around cardiovascular diseases in women.”

Well-being and health stalls

In addition to accessible screening operations, well-being and health stands, led by health professionals, will be available until Friday.

From Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 April 2022, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Borderouge metro (line B), Carré de la Maourine.

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