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73rd WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY – Agenda Item 11.2. Joint Statement by the World Heart Federation and Global Coalition for Circulatory Health. Honorable Chair, distinguished delegates, Given the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people living with NCDs and circulatory conditions such as kidney disease, diabetes, CVD, and stroke, the International Society of Nephrology, International […]

For decades, the digital age has been revolutionizing our lives. The healthcare sector was among the first to harness the opportunities that digital technology makes possible. If we can find one winning outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic, it could be that the tools of digital health, for example telemedicine, saw increased uptake and often, effectively […]

More than 400 million people are already living with type 2 diabetes and the number is rising on every continent. In the COVID-19 pandemic, diabetes has emerged as one of the most threatening underlying illnesses that complicates effective treatment. Diabetes was also a risk factor for severe disease and mortality in the SARS, MERS and […]

On 8 October, the World Heart Federation convened the first of our four-part Heart Talks webinar series, challenging public health experts from policymaking, international organizations, academia, public health, and the private sector to look beyond the doom & gloom into the future of future of CVD & NCD management. Hosted by Prof. Tom Gaziano […]

GENEVA (16 October 2020) – The World Heart Federation (WHF) has developed a new policy brief on front-of-pack labelling (FOPL) aimed at improving global standards on nutrition and creating healthy food environments. Poor diet is responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other risk factor, and is a leading cause of obesity, type 2 diabetes, […]

Geneva/Rio de Janeiro (13 October 2020) – The impact of COVID-19 on people with underlying health conditions, particularly those affecting the heart, poses new public health challenges. In particular, little is known about how COVID-19 is impacting the millions of people worldwide with neglected diseases. This socioeconomically vulnerable population already faced significant challenges to accessing […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a perfect storm for heart health. Three main factors are contributing to this phenomenon. First, people with COVID-19 and heart disease are among those with the highest risk of death and of developing severe conditions. Second, after the virus attacks, the heart might be adversely affected even in people without […]

Geneva, 29 September 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a perfect storm for the heart, the World Heart Federation (WHF) warns on World Heart Day. Three main factors are contributing to this phenomenon. First, people with COVID-19 and heart disease are among those with the highest risk of death and of developing severe conditions. […]

GENEVA—Every year, 1.9 million people die from tobacco-induced heart disease, according to a new brief released today by the World Health Organization, World Heart Federation and the University of Newcastle, Australia ahead of World Heart Day, marked on 29 September. This equates to one in five of all deaths from heart disease, warn the report’s […]

Science and medicine have progressed in leaps and bounds, often aided by advances in technology, yet thousands of rare diseases continue to impact the lives of millions of people. A disease is “rare” until it hits home and then it becomes unfortunately all too familiar for patients and their families. One type of rare disease, […]

Diabetes and heart failure can be a double-edged sword: people with Type 2 diabetes, characterized by high blood sugar, can have as much as a four-fold risk of developing heart failure than someone without diabetes. And heart failure arising from inefficient pumping of oxygenated blood, exacerbates diabetes risk. Researchers have identified a new class of […]