Publication of book || Gendermedizin in der klinischen Praxis || DE

Publication of book || Gendermedizin in der klinischen Praxis || DE

Noch immer ist nicht klar, warum Männer mehr und früher im Leben Herzinfarkte haben, aber jüngere Frauen ein höheres Risiko, an einem erlittenen Infarkt zu versterben. 90 % der plötzlichen Herztodesfälle beim Sport und die Mehrzahl der Kardiomyopathien und Myokarditiden betreffen Männer, aber die stressinduzierte Herzerkrankung, das Takotsubo-Syndrom, zu 90 % postmenopausale Frauen. In den Gefäß- und Herzzellen finden sich genetisch und hormonell verursachte Geschlechterunterschiede. Gender, Stress, Depression und das Zusammenspiel von Herz, Immunsystem und Gehirn beeinflussen das Auftreten und den Verlauf von Herzerkrankungen geschlechtsspezifisch. Blutdrucke im Verlauf des Lebens unterscheiden sich bei den Geschlechtern. Das Risiko von Schwangerschaftskomplikationen für Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen (HKE) muss stärker berücksichtigt werden. Kardiovaskuläre Medikamente müssen für Männer und für Frauen optimiert werden. Frauen profitieren ebenso wie die Männer von interventioneller Therapie.
Link zum Buchkapitel 'Geschlechtsspezifische Aspekte bei Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen' hier.

Congratulations to Adriana Vinzens!

Congratulations to Adriana Vinzens!

Warm congratulations to Adriana, who has completed her master's thesis on the topic "Prognostic Value of Perivascular Adipose Tissue Attenuation in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation" with the highest grade at the University of Zurich!

Two Gebhard Labs Unite

Two Gebhard Labs Unite

After many years of successful collaboration in the field of Gender Medicine and Women’s Health in Switzerland, Caroline Gebhard, intensivist and anesthesiologist at the University Hospital Basel, and Catherine Gebhard, cardiologist at the University Hospital Bern and the University of Zurich, have united their research groups in order to accomplish together their common goal of reaching gender equality in medicine in Switzerland.

 

Publication of review article in the European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging || Tales from the future - nuclear cardio-oncology, from prediction to diagnosis and monitoring || EN

Publication of review article in the European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging || Tales from the future - nuclear cardio-oncology, from prediction to diagnosis and monitoring || EN

Cancer and cardiovascular disease often share common risk factors, and patients with cardiovascular disease who develop cancer are at high risk of experiencing major adverse cardiac events. Additionally, cancer treatment can induce short- and long-term adverse cardiovascular events. Given the improvement in oncological patients' prognosis, the burden in this vulnerable population is slowly shifting towards increased cardiovascular mortality. Consequently, the field of cardio-oncology is steadily expanding, prompting the need for new markers to stratify and monitor the cardiovascular risk in oncological patients before, during, and after the completion of treatment. Advanced noninvasive cardiac imaging has raised great interest in the early detection of cardiovascular diseases and cardiotoxicity in oncological patients. Nuclear medicine has long been a pivotal exam to robustly assess and monitor the cardiac function of patients undergoing potentially cardiotoxic chemotherapies. In addition, recent radiotracers have shown great interest in the early detection of cancer treatment-related cardiotoxicity. In this review, we summarize the current and emerging nuclear cardiology tools that can help identify cardiotoxicity and assess the cardiovascular risk in patients undergoing cancer treatments, and discuss the specific role of nuclear cardiology alongside other noninvasive imaging techniques. Link to full article here.

New Women's Heart Center at the Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Inselspital Bern || DE

Neues Frauenherzzentrum an der Universitätsklinik für Kardiologie des Inselspitals

Frauenherzen schlagen anders. Sie unterscheiden sich von Männerherzen beim Erkrankungsrisiko, weisen andere Symptome und Krankheitsverläufe auf und sprechen unterschiedlich auf Therapien und Medikamente an. Am neuen Frauenherzzentrum in Bern haben wir unsere Expertise für frauenspezifische Diagnostik und Therapie gebündelt und bieten eine umfassende Betreuung von Frauen im Bereich Herzgesundheit an. Unter Berücksichtigung der unterschiedlichen Anforderungen von Frauenherzen an die Medizin bieten wir interdisziplinär und individuell angepasste Behandlungspfade an.
Mehr Informationen hier.

Cardiovascular Risk Check at the Swiss Health Days in Bern || DE

Cardiovascular Risk Check at the Swiss Health Days in Bern || DE

On June 13th, Catherine & the team of Preventive Cardiology at Inselspital Bern provided a cardioavascular health check for all members of the parliament in Bern. For the first time, cardiovascular risk assessment was performed by using sex-specific questionnaires in order to account for the different impact and weighting of cardiovascular risk factors in women and men. More information can be found here

Publication of Cardio Pulse article in the European Heart Journal || Lipid-lowering therapy and the risk of dementia: lessons learned from two decades of controversy ||EN

Publication of Cardio Pulse article in the European Heart Journal || Lipid-lowering therapy and the risk of dementia: lessons learned from two decades of controversy || EN

Lipid-lowering agents constitute a cornerstone of cardiovascular disease prevention. As such, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) are among the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide, and statin therapy was shown to attenuate the risk of major vascular events, including myocardial infarctions, strokes, and coronary revascularization procedures, by about one-quarter for each 1 mmol/L per year reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Despite the overwhelming evidence supporting the use of statins for cardiovascular disease prevention, conflicting findings have emerged from studies assessing the association between statin therapy and the risk of cognitive impairment, fueling a controversy that has been ongoing for more than two decades.
Link to full text.

Publication of review article in Cardiovascular Medicine || Impact of Sex and Gender on heart failure || EN

PUBLICATION OF REVIEW ARTICLE IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE || IMPACT OF SEX AND GENDER ON HEART FAILURE || EN

Sex and gender affect almost every aspect of #heartfailure. However, heart failure treatment is limited by a profound underrepresentation of women in clinical trials, which has resulted in a lesser understanding of disease behavior in female patients and in treatment guidelines that are predominantly based on male-derived data. Consequently, large knowledge gaps persist in sex-specific disease mechanisms, optimal drug doses for women, and sex-specific criteria for advanced heart failure therapy. Such knowledge gaps can only be closed with a systematic approach to ensure that sex-specific analyses are considered in study design, trial recruitment, statistical analysis plan, and reporting. Read more here.

Congratulations to Arnaud Dussault-Cloutier!

Congratulations to Arnaud Dussault-Cloutier on the approval of his Master's thesis "Sex versus gender related characteristics: which predicts clinical outcomes of acute COVID-19?"!

Inselspital Bern

Department of Cardiology
Freiburgstrasse 20
CH-3010 Bern

Stadtspital Zürich Triemli

Institut für Intensivmedizin
Birmensdorferstrasse 497
CH-8063 Zürich

University Hospital Zurich

Department of Nuclear Medicine
Cardiovascular Gender Medicine
Rämistrasse 100
CH-8091 Zurich

University of Basel
Department of Clinical Research

Petersgraben 4
CH-4031 Basel