The media regularly turns to our healthcare professionals for their expertise on a wide range of important heart health topics.
Here is a selection of recent news items featuring the Heart Institute and its experts.
Please note this page is updated regularly. Linked content is available in the language in which it was published.
- The Ottawa Heart Institute has launched the next phase of a campaign to screen one million Canadians for cardiovascular disease risk factors. Here’s how you can get screened (CTV).
- Patients diagnosed with common cardiac conditions should also be screened for dementia and depression, new brain-heart clinical guidelines recommend (Ottawa Citizen).
- Heart, brain and mental health conditions can overlap in ways doctors and patients should be aware of and address, according to new Canadian guidelines (CBC Health Unit, The National).
- As heart disease rates climb for adults in their forties and fifties, a growing reality is heart disease patients are also sometimes parents of young kids or teens. Now the Ottawa Heart Institute is trying to help people navigate being both a patient and a parent (CBC Ottawa: All in a Day with Alan Neal).
- The University of Ottawa Heart Institute is teaming up with McGill University and the University of Ottawa for a new platform that will help research (CTV: Your Morning Ottawa).
- Use of the highly-addictive pouches among young Canadians has soared by 600% and health professionals are concerned (Toronto Star).
- The Ottawa Heart Institute is celebrating 50 years of 'stepping outside the box.' (The Ottawa Citizen).
- Vice President of Clinical Operations Erika MacPhee looks back on 50 years of history at the Ottawa Heart Institute on Les matins d’ici (Radio-Canada).
- CTV News: Highlighting Wear Red Canada Day, experts warn that women’s heart disease is often under-recognized and underdiagnosed because symptoms can differ from men’s and risks linked to pregnancy complications and menopause underscore the need for greater awareness and screening.
- New research suggests that being in a strong relationship can improve a patient’s recovery from heart disease and even protect against it, reports the Ottawa Citizen.
- Researchers at the Ottawa Heart Institute, working with international partners, have found that a natural molecule made by gut bacteria can reduce inflammation and protect against diabetes and obesity, opening fresh paths for treatment. Read about it in The Ottawa Citizen.