Author: mzelenkovski
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia Awareness Day 2024
The World Heart Federation (WHF) is excited to join the international FH community in celebrating FH Awareness Day 2024. Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) remains a vastly underdiagnosed and undertreated condition that…
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A quarter of patients in WHF Study still experiencing persistent long COVID symptom after one year
Following the success of the Global Study on Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and COVID-19, and to better understand long COVID, especially in low-resource settings, World Heart Federation (WHF) commenced the WHF…
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New report: Hong Kong, London and Madrid top City Heartbeat Index, a heart health benchmark of 50 cities worldwide
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, 28 August 2024 – World Heart Federation (WHF) today launched a first assessment of efforts undertaken by cities to combat cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of…
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World Heart Day 2024: USE ❤️ FOR ACTION
Help us motivate every country to have a national action plan for CVD! Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the world’s biggest killer – responsible for more than 20.5 million deaths every year. Yet…
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2024 Emerging Leaders cohort announced
The 2024 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 21 countries across 5 continents, has been announced The World Heart Federation created the WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme to…
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Advocating for Heart Health at WHA77
The World Heart Federation (WHF) proudly represented the global cardiovascular community at the Seventy-Seventh World Health Assembly, which successfully concluded on 1 June 2024. WHF played a key role in…
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Promoting Health at #WHA77: Combating Physical Inactivity for Global Well-being
This is a statement led by NCD Alliance and the World Heart Federation at the 77 World Health Assembly on Agenda item 15.3 We thank WHO and commend the report’s…
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#WHA77: Strengthening Cardiovascular Care for Maternal Health
This is a statement led by NCD Alliance and the World Heart Federation at the 77 World Health Assembly on Agenda item 11.7 We thank the WHO for the report,…
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Advancing Global Health and Climate Action at #WHA77: A Unified Call for Urgent Measures
This is a statement led by NCD Alliance and the World Heart Federation at the 77 World Health Assembly on Agenda item 15.4 This statement is made by the World…
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Protecting Hearts, Safeguarding Futures
The World Heart Federation is excited to celebrate World No Tobacco Day with the global cardiovascular health and tobacco control communities. Tobacco remains a significant, yet preventable, risk factor for…