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                             Diagnose Heart Disease, Prevent Heart Disease,

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                                          Get Heart Checked!

In 2007 the Sir Thomas Cropo Foundation became proactive in seeking out organizations that could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of women with heart disease. Tom Cropo had heart problems and five bypasses in his early 50s. His sister suffered many small strokes prior to a massive stoke which destroyed her quality of life and independence for 10 years before she died.

Heart and stroke are the number one killer of  women.  The Cropo Foundation is dedicating resources to encourage and effect change to bring the death rate in women down.

The Cropo Foundation will support efforts with: 

Contributing Grants:

• To help support permanent Women's Heart Screening Centers, Women's Heart Screening clinics and Women's Heart Screening Hospitals in cities and rural communities in Manitoba and help establish a separate Ischemic Women's Heart Disease category to create a Heart Check Protocol specific to women. 

Contributing One to Two Year Research Grants:

• Using Women of all ages for research, to achieve evidence based new, cost effective, noninvasive methods for detecting heart disease. On going research and current test results and information will aid in educating doctors to better understand "The Female Factor". 

                                  Women's Heart News

 Women's vague heart symptoms do not always register with doctors or even women themselves until it is too late.  It has been proven that women have unique heart physiology, which includes subtle, extreme or no symptoms that can prelude heart attacks.  This warrants changes within the medical system on how women are cared for. We encourage the establishment of a permanent heart calcium score plaque breast mammogram screening program to detect heart disease in women.  This will create much needed research and representation. A regular ongoing program could save many lives as does screening for breast cancer.  A dual screening program for heart disease and cancer could be established. 

 The Sir Thomas Cropo Foundation  recommends this Ted talk given by Dr. Bairey Merz, Director of the Women's Heart Center at the Cedar-Sinai Heart Institute where she is a professor of medicine.

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face