Announcement: The Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative is now the Wendy Wray Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative.
Announcement: The Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative is now the Wendy Wray Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative.
And up to 80% of coronary heart disease is preventable. We’re the first nurse-led heart-disease primary prevention women’s clinic in Canada — helping women understand their sex-specific risk, recognize the symptoms, and take action long before a first heart attack.
80%
Most women learn about heart disease after a cardiac event. We work in the years before.
Learn about the risks that affect your heart health.
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What Women Don’t Know
Most women are unaware that their risk factors are not the same as their husband’s, brother’s or father’s. The research that shaped modern cardiology was, for decades, conducted almost entirely on men. We are still catching up.
Both are more potent risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women than in men.
The age curve is shifting. The reasons aren't fully understood — but the trend is real.
Both have been linked to higher cardiovascular risk later in life.
Women volunteer less often in clinical trials, which means treatments are less precisely calibrated for us.