Sarah Brown
@sarahfbrown.bsky.social
Patient Rep & Advisor to research studies & NHS
Women's heart champion
https://heart.bmj.com/content/110/22/e4
Expert patient by experience #ANOCA #INOCA #MINOCA
https://www.internationalheartspasmsalliance.org/
Former Midwife
Women's heart champion
https://heart.bmj.com/content/110/22/e4
Expert patient by experience #ANOCA #INOCA #MINOCA
https://www.internationalheartspasmsalliance.org/
Former Midwife
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Sarah Brown
@sarahfbrown.bsky.social
· Nov 17
"Despite significant progress in cardiovascular pharmacotherapy and interventional strategies, cardiovascular disease (CVD), in particular ischaemic heart disease, remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women in the UK and worldwide."
heart.bmj.com/content/110/...
heart.bmj.com/content/110/...
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'Your Heart Speaks' ANOCA patient survey.
Abstract presented at ESC congress 2025
Abstract presented at ESC congress 2025
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'Your Heart Speaks' ANOCA patient survey.
Abstract presented at ESC congress 2025
Abstract presented at ESC congress 2025
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Just not listening - or narrative incompetence?
"He had hit a hole-in-one, but was on his own. If only someone had witnessed it! Patients’ narrativea are rather like that hole-in-one. Our stories need to be witnessed to give them meaning."
myheartsisters.org/2013/03/22/n...
"He had hit a hole-in-one, but was on his own. If only someone had witnessed it! Patients’ narrativea are rather like that hole-in-one. Our stories need to be witnessed to give them meaning."
myheartsisters.org/2013/03/22/n...
Just not listening – or “narrative incompetence”?
Dr. Jack Coulehan writes this about the patient story: “Patients understand their illnesses in a narrative way whether their physicians realize it or not. If this is so, and if physicians ign…
myheartsisters.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just not listening - or narrative incompetence?
"He had hit a hole-in-one, but was on his own. If only someone had witnessed it! Patients’ narrativea are rather like that hole-in-one. Our stories need to be witnessed to give them meaning."
myheartsisters.org/2013/03/22/n...
"He had hit a hole-in-one, but was on his own. If only someone had witnessed it! Patients’ narrativea are rather like that hole-in-one. Our stories need to be witnessed to give them meaning."
myheartsisters.org/2013/03/22/n...
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🌟The #SCCT25 best abstract 🥇goes to Dr. Joel Lennell with the #WARRIOR serial imaging study of 👭 with suspected INOCA
✨️ OMT (ASA + statin + ACEi/ARB) results in ⬆️ lowering of non-calcified plaque volume on 2yr #yesCCT
@scct-heart.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social
@prodriguezmd.bsky.social
✨️ OMT (ASA + statin + ACEi/ARB) results in ⬆️ lowering of non-calcified plaque volume on 2yr #yesCCT
@scct-heart.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social
@prodriguezmd.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🌟The #SCCT25 best abstract 🥇goes to Dr. Joel Lennell with the #WARRIOR serial imaging study of 👭 with suspected INOCA
✨️ OMT (ASA + statin + ACEi/ARB) results in ⬆️ lowering of non-calcified plaque volume on 2yr #yesCCT
@scct-heart.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social
@prodriguezmd.bsky.social
✨️ OMT (ASA + statin + ACEi/ARB) results in ⬆️ lowering of non-calcified plaque volume on 2yr #yesCCT
@scct-heart.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social
@prodriguezmd.bsky.social
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London Institute To Host INOCA 2025
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/42820/
INOCA represents a critical and emerging frontier in cardiovascular medicine, revealing the complexity of myocardial ischaemia beyond traditional…
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/42820/
INOCA represents a critical and emerging frontier in cardiovascular medicine, revealing the complexity of myocardial ischaemia beyond traditional…
London Institute To Host INOCA 2025 - Australia News Beep
INOCA represents a critical and emerging frontier in cardiovascular medicine, revealing the complexity of myocardial ischaemia beyond traditional models
www.newsbeep.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
London Institute To Host INOCA 2025
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/42820/
INOCA represents a critical and emerging frontier in cardiovascular medicine, revealing the complexity of myocardial ischaemia beyond traditional…
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/42820/
INOCA represents a critical and emerging frontier in cardiovascular medicine, revealing the complexity of myocardial ischaemia beyond traditional…
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🧵1\ The discovery of INOCA (Ischemia with No Obstructive Coronary Arteries) came from studying women with persistent chest pain. This led to the recognition of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD)—now known to affect people of all sexes. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....
Coronary Arterial Function and Disease in Women With No Obstructive Coronary Arteries | Circulation Research
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of mortality in women. While traditional
cardiovascular risk factors play an important role in the development of IHD in women,
women may experience s...
www.ahajournals.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🧵1\ The discovery of INOCA (Ischemia with No Obstructive Coronary Arteries) came from studying women with persistent chest pain. This led to the recognition of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD)—now known to affect people of all sexes. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....
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Intensive medical therapy usual care for reducing noncalcified coronary plaque in women who have INOCA, according to results of a serial imaging subanalysis of the WARRIOR trial. #SCCT2025 #CardioSky @damini-d.bsky.social
www.tctmd.com/news/less-pl...
www.tctmd.com/news/less-pl...
Less Plaque With Intensive Medical Therapy vs Usual Care in INOCA: WARRIOR
The serial imaging substudy shows that intensive therapy might change plaque morphology positively, researchers say.
www.tctmd.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Intensive medical therapy usual care for reducing noncalcified coronary plaque in women who have INOCA, according to results of a serial imaging subanalysis of the WARRIOR trial. #SCCT2025 #CardioSky @damini-d.bsky.social
www.tctmd.com/news/less-pl...
www.tctmd.com/news/less-pl...
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The next BCS webinar takes place on Monday!
Book your free place to attend 'Hot Topics in IHD Management' and hear from our expert panel during the 90 minute session. To finish, you'll be able to ask your questions in real-time during the Q&A section.
Book your place > tinyurl.com/IHDWebinar
Book your free place to attend 'Hot Topics in IHD Management' and hear from our expert panel during the 90 minute session. To finish, you'll be able to ask your questions in real-time during the Q&A section.
Book your place > tinyurl.com/IHDWebinar
June 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The next BCS webinar takes place on Monday!
Book your free place to attend 'Hot Topics in IHD Management' and hear from our expert panel during the 90 minute session. To finish, you'll be able to ask your questions in real-time during the Q&A section.
Book your place > tinyurl.com/IHDWebinar
Book your free place to attend 'Hot Topics in IHD Management' and hear from our expert panel during the 90 minute session. To finish, you'll be able to ask your questions in real-time during the Q&A section.
Book your place > tinyurl.com/IHDWebinar
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"Physicians now in practice have likely received little if any specific med school training in women’s health aside from reproductive health issues. As Emergency physician Dr. Alyson McGregor reminds her colleagues:
“Women are NOT just men with boobs & tubes.”
myheartsisters.org/2023/09/10/n...
“Women are NOT just men with boobs & tubes.”
myheartsisters.org/2023/09/10/n...
Nine lessons about women’s heart disease that future doctors will learn in med school
These nine @CWHHA teaching modules offer a one-stop Master Class package to any academic tasked with teaching future doctors and nurses about women and heart disease.
myheartsisters.org
May 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Physicians now in practice have likely received little if any specific med school training in women’s health aside from reproductive health issues. As Emergency physician Dr. Alyson McGregor reminds her colleagues:
“Women are NOT just men with boobs & tubes.”
myheartsisters.org/2023/09/10/n...
“Women are NOT just men with boobs & tubes.”
myheartsisters.org/2023/09/10/n...
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Thank you to everyone who passed on the details of our survey.
CONGRATULATIONS to all who took Survey 1! You are, in part, going to the ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Congress with Sarena La on August 29th in Madrid.
surveys.adelaide.edu.au/redcap/surve...
CONGRATULATIONS to all who took Survey 1! You are, in part, going to the ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Congress with Sarena La on August 29th in Madrid.
surveys.adelaide.edu.au/redcap/surve...
May 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thank you to everyone who passed on the details of our survey.
CONGRATULATIONS to all who took Survey 1! You are, in part, going to the ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Congress with Sarena La on August 29th in Madrid.
surveys.adelaide.edu.au/redcap/surve...
CONGRATULATIONS to all who took Survey 1! You are, in part, going to the ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Congress with Sarena La on August 29th in Madrid.
surveys.adelaide.edu.au/redcap/surve...
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When I was 8 1/2 months pregnant, I was diagnosed with preeclampsia. I didn't know then that pregnancy complications like this are a strong link to increased future heart disease risk. This study suggests that a simple blood test might identify over 90% of preterm high risk women ...
May 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
When I was 8 1/2 months pregnant, I was diagnosed with preeclampsia. I didn't know then that pregnancy complications like this are a strong link to increased future heart disease risk. This study suggests that a simple blood test might identify over 90% of preterm high risk women ...
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3 books, 3 bold messages about the problem with male-centric medicine:
1. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health
2. The Exquisite Machine: the New Science of the Heart
3. Doing Harm
(Ladies, take your blood pressure meds before reading) 💕
myheartsisters.org/2022/09/25/c...
1. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health
2. The Exquisite Machine: the New Science of the Heart
3. Doing Harm
(Ladies, take your blood pressure meds before reading) 💕
myheartsisters.org/2022/09/25/c...
Must women bring an advocate along so doctors will believe us?
Three books, three authors, one big question: What is it about female heart patients that makes so many male doctors treat them differently than male patients?
myheartsisters.org
April 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
3 books, 3 bold messages about the problem with male-centric medicine:
1. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health
2. The Exquisite Machine: the New Science of the Heart
3. Doing Harm
(Ladies, take your blood pressure meds before reading) 💕
myheartsisters.org/2022/09/25/c...
1. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health
2. The Exquisite Machine: the New Science of the Heart
3. Doing Harm
(Ladies, take your blood pressure meds before reading) 💕
myheartsisters.org/2022/09/25/c...
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The alluring claim of the wellness industry is that doctors only understand treating disease, whereas wellness focuses on prevention
And yet they are obsessed with attacking two therapies that have prevented more deaths than any other medical interventions in history – statins and vaccines
And yet they are obsessed with attacking two therapies that have prevented more deaths than any other medical interventions in history – statins and vaccines
April 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The alluring claim of the wellness industry is that doctors only understand treating disease, whereas wellness focuses on prevention
And yet they are obsessed with attacking two therapies that have prevented more deaths than any other medical interventions in history – statins and vaccines
And yet they are obsessed with attacking two therapies that have prevented more deaths than any other medical interventions in history – statins and vaccines
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Sex Differences in Microvascular Disease Parameters with Dr. Michel Corban.
youtu.be/UM8ZobLBA30?...
Part 2: patient perspectives from two men experiencing Coronary Vasospasm. It's not just women who live with #ANOCA
Direct link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV44...
youtu.be/UM8ZobLBA30?...
Part 2: patient perspectives from two men experiencing Coronary Vasospasm. It's not just women who live with #ANOCA
Direct link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV44...
Interview on Sex Differences in Microvascular Disease Parameters with Dr. Michel Corban
YouTube video by International Heart Spasms Alliance
youtu.be
April 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sex Differences in Microvascular Disease Parameters with Dr. Michel Corban.
youtu.be/UM8ZobLBA30?...
Part 2: patient perspectives from two men experiencing Coronary Vasospasm. It's not just women who live with #ANOCA
Direct link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV44...
youtu.be/UM8ZobLBA30?...
Part 2: patient perspectives from two men experiencing Coronary Vasospasm. It's not just women who live with #ANOCA
Direct link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV44...
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Pain is what patients tell you it is. Period.
Many words used by healthcare professionals can be judgmental, somehow blaming patients for their illness or pain.
My personal dislike as someone who lives with vasospastic angina.
'abnormal pain perception'
'low pain threshold'
My pain belongs to me.
My personal dislike as someone who lives with vasospastic angina.
'abnormal pain perception'
'low pain threshold'
My pain belongs to me.
April 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Pain is what patients tell you it is. Period.
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🆕 Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of global morbidity & mortality.
A Lancet Commission redefines CAD, emphasising early detection, risk factor management, & a comprehensive approach to prevention throughout the life course: tinyurl.com/5axhtr85 #ACC25 #MedSky
A Lancet Commission redefines CAD, emphasising early detection, risk factor management, & a comprehensive approach to prevention throughout the life course: tinyurl.com/5axhtr85 #ACC25 #MedSky
April 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
🆕 Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of global morbidity & mortality.
A Lancet Commission redefines CAD, emphasising early detection, risk factor management, & a comprehensive approach to prevention throughout the life course: tinyurl.com/5axhtr85 #ACC25 #MedSky
A Lancet Commission redefines CAD, emphasising early detection, risk factor management, & a comprehensive approach to prevention throughout the life course: tinyurl.com/5axhtr85 #ACC25 #MedSky
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Dr. Eileen Handberg: Women with non-obstructive disease are highly symptom burdened, use significant system resources, and need to be treated. We must drop bias, recognize their pain, and ensure proper follow-up care. There’s real room for improvement. 💙 #ACC25
March 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Dr. Eileen Handberg: Women with non-obstructive disease are highly symptom burdened, use significant system resources, and need to be treated. We must drop bias, recognize their pain, and ensure proper follow-up care. There’s real room for improvement. 💙 #ACC25
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Intensive medical therapy did not significantly impact the rate of serious CV events at five years in women w/ suspected INOCA, according to findings from WARRIOR presented during a #LBCT session at #ACC25.
Learn more: bit.ly/44a7uYO #MedSky #CardioSky
Learn more: bit.ly/44a7uYO #MedSky #CardioSky
March 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Intensive medical therapy did not significantly impact the rate of serious CV events at five years in women w/ suspected INOCA, according to findings from WARRIOR presented during a #LBCT session at #ACC25.
Learn more: bit.ly/44a7uYO #MedSky #CardioSky
Learn more: bit.ly/44a7uYO #MedSky #CardioSky
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Invasive coronary function testing determination of #INOCA endotypes impacts medical management in patients with angina and no obstructive CAD #ACC25 @smidtheart.bsky.social @womensheart.bsky.social @drmarthagulati.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Invasive coronary function testing determination of #INOCA endotypes impacts medical management in patients with angina and no obstructive CAD #ACC25 @smidtheart.bsky.social @womensheart.bsky.social @drmarthagulati.bsky.social
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Is menopause a disease? No! It's part of aging and occurs in 1/2 the pop.
Vasomotor symptoms are real
✅assess #cvd risk across the lifespan
✅Need outcome studies of HRT and GLP1RA by risk
✅ask♀️about all risk factors including pregnancy and cardiometabolic risks
@accintouch.bsky.social #acc25
Vasomotor symptoms are real
✅assess #cvd risk across the lifespan
✅Need outcome studies of HRT and GLP1RA by risk
✅ask♀️about all risk factors including pregnancy and cardiometabolic risks
@accintouch.bsky.social #acc25
March 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Is menopause a disease? No! It's part of aging and occurs in 1/2 the pop.
Vasomotor symptoms are real
✅assess #cvd risk across the lifespan
✅Need outcome studies of HRT and GLP1RA by risk
✅ask♀️about all risk factors including pregnancy and cardiometabolic risks
@accintouch.bsky.social #acc25
Vasomotor symptoms are real
✅assess #cvd risk across the lifespan
✅Need outcome studies of HRT and GLP1RA by risk
✅ask♀️about all risk factors including pregnancy and cardiometabolic risks
@accintouch.bsky.social #acc25
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March 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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WARRIOR trial results 'neutral'
"Intensive medical therapy did not significantly impact the rate of serious cardiovascular events at five years in women with suspected ischemia with nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA)"
www.acc.org/Latest-in-Ca...
"Intensive medical therapy did not significantly impact the rate of serious cardiovascular events at five years in women with suspected ischemia with nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA)"
www.acc.org/Latest-in-Ca...
WARRIOR: Intensive Medical Therapy vs. Usual Care in Women With Suspected INOCA - American College of Cardiology
www.acc.org
March 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
WARRIOR trial results 'neutral'
"Intensive medical therapy did not significantly impact the rate of serious cardiovascular events at five years in women with suspected ischemia with nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA)"
www.acc.org/Latest-in-Ca...
"Intensive medical therapy did not significantly impact the rate of serious cardiovascular events at five years in women with suspected ischemia with nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA)"
www.acc.org/Latest-in-Ca...
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We were privileged to be able to contribute to this consensus document of expert clinicians and patients with lived experience, setting out the case for clinical standards for multidisciplinary, patient-centred services for
#ANOCA/INOCA
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...
#ANOCA/INOCA
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...
Clinical standards in angina and non-obstructive coronary arteries: A clinician and patient consensus document
Patients with angina and non-obstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) or myocardial ischaemia
with non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA) comprise a relatively large subgroup
within those with ischaem...
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We were privileged to be able to contribute to this consensus document of expert clinicians and patients with lived experience, setting out the case for clinical standards for multidisciplinary, patient-centred services for
#ANOCA/INOCA
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...
#ANOCA/INOCA
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...