Heart failure awareness day in Caen

• Practical workshops: blood pressure measurement, educational games on diet to better understand the impact of nutrition on heart health, step “in condition” of heart failure;
• Mindful tasting: learn to identify salty foods and their impact on health, with practical advice for a balanced diet;
• Prevention and screening: a detailed update on 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!

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

• Life and Heart Association (WITH) ;
• France Congenital Heart Diseases ;
• French Association against Amyloidosis ;
• Heart of Moms Priority Prevention ;
• Heart assistance ;
• Norman Association of Cardiac Transplant Patients ;
• Calvados Health Prevention 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 of the population, this figure could increase by 25% every 4 years. Despite its dynamic progression, heart failure and its symptoms remain little known and underestimated by the 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 direct you towards a medical consultation.

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

The cardiology department at Caen Normandy University Hospital ensures the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of this chronic and complex pathology, particularly in the most serious cases. It offers expert and multidisciplinary care as well as innovative therapies (long-term cardiac assistance, monitoring of transplant patients, pre-cardiac transplant assessment) integrated into a structured and personalized care pathway in close collaboration with other players in the field. cardiology (interventional, imaging , remote monitoring of patients after hospitalization).