Heart failure awareness day in Caen

• Practical workshops: blood pressure measurement, educational games on nutrition to better understand the impact of nutrition on heart health, step aerobics "in conditions" of heart failure;
• Mindful eating: learn to identify salty foods and their impact on health, with practical tips for a balanced diet;
• Prevention and screening: a detailed look at the warning signs of heart failure and the preventive measures to adopt.

Children will not be forgotten and will be able to decorate the stand with some coloring pages!

Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet patient associations that are fighting to raise awareness of this disease and share their experiences:

• Association Vie Et Cœur (AVEC) ;
• France Congenital Heart Disease ;
• French Association against Amyloidosis ;
• Heart of Mothers: Prevention Priority ;
• Heart assistance ;
• Normandy Association of Heart Transplant Recipients ;
• Calvados Health, Prevention and Information Association (ASPIC).

Heart failure is a set of symptoms that includes fatigue, shortness of breath, edema formation, and weight gain (due to water retention).

Today, it affects 1.5 million French people, particularly those over 60. With the aging population, this figure could increase by 25% every four years. Despite its rapid rise, heart failure and its symptoms remain poorly understood and underestimated by the general population. Thus, in France, between 400,000 and 700,000 people suffer from it without knowing it.*

It is therefore essential to know the signs that should prompt a medical consultation.

*Source: https://www.assurance-médie.ameli.fr/

The cardiology department at Caen Normandy University Hospital provides diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care for this chronic and complex condition, particularly in the most serious cases. It offers expert, multidisciplinary care and innovative therapies (long-term cardiac support, follow-up of transplant patients, pre-transplant heart assessment) integrated into a structured and personalized care pathway in close collaboration with other cardiology professionals (interventional cardiology, imaging , remote patient monitoring after hospitalization).