Peer Support Programs | Cardiac Rehab Programs | Women's Heart Clinics
DISCLAIMER: This directory is meant to connect women with cardiovascular disease to available programming. While we have applied review criteria when adding these programs and resources, how you choose to use these programs and resources will be at your own discretion.
Women’s heart programs are now being recognized as important and crucial initiatives to address sex- and gender-based disparities in heart and vascular disease outcomes.1,2
There is growing evidence of increasing heart and vascular disease morbidity and death among women results in the importance of these specialized programs.
These programs offer diverse and culturally appropriate expert care for heart and vascular diseases commonly seen in women throughout their lifespan, care for all genders, including transgender individuals, and support the establishment of longitudinal research databases. These programs also go beyond routine heart disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and education.1
Women's heart programs address heart conditions and risk factors that disproportionately impact women such as:
Adverse pregnancy outcomes
(ex. premature birth, diabetes or hypertension during pregnancy, preeclampsia)
Peripartum cardiomyopathy
(weakened heart during or after pregnancy)
Polycystic ovary syndrome
(problem with hormones that happens during the child-bearing years)
Graphical abstract.4