Below are the recorded presentations from the 2025 Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit. Please note that presentation slides are not available for all sessions.
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The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit (CWHHS) is a national event dedicated exclusively to advancing women’s cardiovascular health.
CardioPrevent® is a heart health program that helps people with risk factors lower their chances of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). The program accepts individuals who are at moderate to high risk for CVD. Participation requires a referral by a physician or nurse practitioner, and results are shared with the referring physician to support the coordination of care.
Frequently Asked Questions
Check out some important topics on heart health, brought to you by our University of Ottawa Heart Institute professionals.
HeartWise Education
Users can follow a personalized exercise program, receive coaching tips, keep track of their progress, and access dozens of heart-healthy resources.
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute's Prevention, Rehabilitation and Wellness team is hard at work developing and testing future programs to help people learn about their heart and vascular health and enable them to initiate and/or maintain heart-healthy behaviours to improve their overall quality of life.
View past webinars for patients and healthcare professionals.
The Women@Heart In-patient Support Program is a peer-to-peer support opportunity in the hospital for women recently diagnosed with heart disease. After being diagnosed with heart disease, many women experience feelings of isolation and depression.
Risks and symptoms of heart disease in women
Peer leaders are women who have been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease and have a strong passion for supporting and helping other women in their recovery. Leaders must have come to terms with own cardiovascular diagnosis and be physically, emotionally and psychologically ready to help other women.
Regular physical activity is one of the best ways to improve your health. When you increase your physical activity even a little, at any age, disease development and progression are slowed down.
Pregnancy is often described as a “stress test” that helps identify women who are at risk of developing chronic diseases later in life. To address this important clinical problem, we adapted our CardioPrevent® program to support high-risk women postpartum.
Heart health begins at home and in the everyday care of the family doctor. Our care activities are designed to empower women to manage their own health with confidence, while also supporting their primary care providers with information and training. The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Centre is working to improve care both locally and nationally by developing personalized, one-on-one programs as well as digital educational tools.
Heart disease is the leading cause of premature death for women in Canada. When it comes to heart disease, women are under-studied, under-diagnosed, under-treated, under-supported and under-aware. Women themselves tend to under-estimate the risk of dying or becoming seriously unwell due to heart disease.
Risk factors
Have you experienced any of the following medical complications during pregnancy?
A detailed overview of the topics that are covered in each Women@Heart session.
The terms “sex” and “gender” are often used interchangeably despite clear and distinct definitions.