Eva Gerdts lectured at the Danish Cardiovascular Academy

It aroused great enthusiasm and interest when Professor Eva Gerdts gave a lecture on Hypertension in women at the Summer Seminar of the Danish Cardiovascular Academy.

It is very inspiring to experience recognition of the Centre's core research also from abroad. But at the same time, it is sad that it is still so little known among the more than 240 young researchers who participated that blood pressure develops differently in women and men over the life course, and how high blood pressure is more harmful to women. After all, high blood pressure is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease in women, and the leading cause of death in European women. 

This shows how important it is to disseminate and communicate our research that documents gender differences in heart disease, and points to the need for the government to intensify its efforts to ensure that health profession students and health workers receive updated knowledge about these gender differences, as promised in the Women's Health Strategy Report 2025.