Absolutely! The CWHHA (Canadian Women's Heart Health Alliance) recently had a continuing education course approved for doctors about women's hearts - progress is happening! Just wish it was faster. #herheartmatter #heartsisters

Carolyn is a powerhouse of knowledge and a tireless advocate. We need more women to recognize their heart symptoms. Women's heart research is being done and now we need to get that knowledge into clinical guidelines. #herheartmatters #heartsisters

Carolyn’s jargon-free, patient-friendly glossary of weird cardiology terms After my MI, I was lying in my CCU bed thinking about my blocked LAD. Need a translation? Check out this list of the most confusing and common cardiac acronyms and terminology.

Carolyn's jargon-free, patient-friendly #HeartSisters glossary of weird cardiology terms (all 9,200+ words!) is also part of my book “A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease“ (Johns Hopkins University Press)
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Carolyn’s jargon-free, patient-friendly glossary of weird cardiology terms After my MI, I was lying in my CCU bed thinking about my blocked LAD. Need a translation? Check out this list of the most confusing and common cardiac acronyms and terminology.

Are you having trouble translating all that medical jargon? Visit #HeartSisters jargon-free, patient-friendly glossary of cardiac terms, abbreviations and confusing acronyms... 💕
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Many women experience this frightening pain after a stent procedure in their heart. It should be normalized to give any stent patient a heads up about it so they can cope better. Heart issues are scary enough. #heartsmatter #heartsisters

Weekly Round-Up Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve wanted to sh…

Thank you dear Marie for including my #HeartSisters post about "mental muscle" in this week's roundup - in helping us to focus on what patients CAN do instead of what we CAN'T. 💕
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Speaking of weird cardiac symptoms... this reader comment in response to my latest #HeartSisters post:

"I ended up in the local Emergency Department because I thought I was having a heart attack. Turns out I was wearing a tight bra with a tight under-wire..."

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Why does your arm hurt during a heart attack?

Most popular #HeartSisters post since 2013
(2.3 million views!)
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Every Sunday morning for several years, I've been posting a new #HeartSisters essay for women living with heart disease.
But yesterday, a Saturday, I accidentally scheduled this one, a day early. My readers responded by asking:
"It IS Saturday today, right?" :-)
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Congenital Heart Disease: the poor cousin of childhood diagnoses? Many adults born with congenital heart disease have never met anyone else with a similar condition – which is where patient support organizations shine!

Congenital Heart Disease: the poor cousin of childhood diagnoses?🫀
#NIH funded $143 million in 2023 to research #CongenitalHeartDisease (affects 1 in 80 babies) - while childhood leukemia funding (1 in 13,500) was $268 million.
@globalarchorg
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WomenHeart Champions, Ingrid & Janice, class of 2015 saving lives through support & education supported by @AtlanticHealth @LindaGillamMD @CardiacConsult #heartsisters

@LindaGillamMD & @CardiacConsult. Thanks for creating a powerful learning program with these #rockstar #WomenInMedicine #FaceofCardiology #MMCFrontiers #TsunamiOfWomen #heartsisters