Take care of your heart
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world © iStock / SDI Productions
By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world.
Populations in low- and middle-income countries are the hardest hit by these pathologies.
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While 80% of premature strokes and heart attacks are preventable, how can we improve prevention and management?
How to take care of your heart?
Pr Xavier Jouven
, Cardiologist.
Head of pole at the
Georges Pompidou European hospital in Paris
, coordinator of the "cardiovascular epidemiology" unit at
INSERM
.
Epidemiologist.
Dr Véronique Laubhouet- Koffi
, cardiologist at the Edlona cardiology center in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, Founder of the
Ivorian league against arterial hypertension
At the end of the program, we find the nutrition column of
Stéphane Besançon
, nutritionist and director of the
NGO Santé Diabète
in Bamako, Mali.
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