Even in primary care, I know everything about breast health and cancer screening but NOTHING about heart health even though it's more likely to kill me. One of my colleagues reduced it down to "Men like boobs" 🤷♀️
Oh the menopausal palpitations that had me sitting on the side of the freeway with an ambulance having an ECG! Yes. We are not taught this in medical school.
Oh my God Lara! How crazy is that? The fact that so many of us (including clinicians) aren’t taught to recognise menopause as a driver is a real blind spot. Thank you for saying this out loud.
Amazing video. Thank you both for all your fantastic work. I suffered with AF before and after my period for so many years. I have congenital heart disease and always had brilliant care but when I would talk about the hormonal link, it fell on death ears. I ended up in persistent AF. I finally had an ablation last year and it is life changing.
Thank you so much for sharing this. What you describe is exactly the blind spot we were trying to name. I’m really glad you finally found an intervention that worked and that the ablation has been life-changing. Stories like yours are why this conversation matters because they make what was dismissed.
When hormonal biology is excluded from cardiology, disease doesn’t disappear. It becomes harder to see, harder to diagnose, and preventable risk just accumulates silently over decades.
Even in primary care, I know everything about breast health and cancer screening but NOTHING about heart health even though it's more likely to kill me. One of my colleagues reduced it down to "Men like boobs" 🤷♀️
Oh the menopausal palpitations that had me sitting on the side of the freeway with an ambulance having an ECG! Yes. We are not taught this in medical school.
Oh my God Lara! How crazy is that? The fact that so many of us (including clinicians) aren’t taught to recognise menopause as a driver is a real blind spot. Thank you for saying this out loud.
Amazing video. Thank you both for all your fantastic work. I suffered with AF before and after my period for so many years. I have congenital heart disease and always had brilliant care but when I would talk about the hormonal link, it fell on death ears. I ended up in persistent AF. I finally had an ablation last year and it is life changing.
Thank you so much for sharing this. What you describe is exactly the blind spot we were trying to name. I’m really glad you finally found an intervention that worked and that the ablation has been life-changing. Stories like yours are why this conversation matters because they make what was dismissed.
When hormonal biology is excluded from cardiology, disease doesn’t disappear. It becomes harder to see, harder to diagnose, and preventable risk just accumulates silently over decades.