The Healthy Heart Trust

It remains an uncomfortable fact that despite many women suffering from acute coronary syndromes being at lower risk than men, they remain undertreated with many evidence-based therapies. There continues to exist an unmet need to better understand and address differences in short- and long-term outcomes between women and men in the setting of cardiovascular disease.

Watch this webinar to understand the latest evidence from leading researchers in the field and hear a high profile story which devastatingly showed how this evidence can play out in practice.

The agenda includes:
– Chair: Verity Algar, Policy Lead, Department of Health and Social Care
– Dr Sanne Peters, Senior Lecturer, The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, “Sex differences in cardiovascular risk factors and prevention”
– Dr Amy Sarma, Co-Director of the Women’s Heart Health Program and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy Program, MGH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, “Gender inequalities in outcomes after acute coronary syndromes”
– Drew Lawrence, Journalist and Writer, “How Tori Bowie’s death highlighted a devastating reality for Black women”
Followed by a Q&A with the audience.
This session was overseen and coordinated by Dr Antonis Kousoulis, with Sumaty Hernandez-Farina.

This online seminar was part of World Healthy Life Week 2023, with the theme: “Health Inequalities: Towards Cardiovascular Health Equity”. In partnership with the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

The World Healthy Life Week is an international event, now in its fourth year. It is hosted by the Healthy Heart Trust, the healthy heart charity established in 1996. It is about taking a holistic view of our health to promote a healthy life for all by focusing on the message of how keeping our heart healthy is central to our overall good health.

A series of webinars is at the heart of the Week’s activities to enable the exchange of knowledge on the evidence of promoting health and preventing illness and inspire people and decision-makers to take positive action to protect heart health.

You can watch the webinar here: