Healthy Blood Vessels - Healthy Heart
11/04/2025On 13 November 2025 the University Hospital of Würzburg will inform all interested parties about circulatory disorders caused by narrowed coronary arteries - and how this risk of heart attack can be prevented.
The German Heart Foundation is dedicating this year's nationwide Heart Weeks between 1 and 30 November to coronary heart disease (CHD) as a common underlying disease and precursor to a heart attack. The Medical Clinic I of the University Hospital of Würzburg (UKW) is taking up the motto of the campaign weeks "Gesunde Gefäße – gesundes Herz: Den Herzinfarkt vermeiden" and invites all interested parties to an information evening on Thursday, 13 November 2025.
At the free event in the lecture theatre of the Zentrum für Innere Medizin (ZIM) at the UKW on Oberdürrbacher Straße, experts from the clinic will give short presentations answering key questions about CHD: How do coronary arteries become narrowed and why are they so dangerous? How can obesity, diabetes and lipometabolic disorders as major risk factors for CHD be treated? If narrowing is already present - what treatment options are there? What effect do rehabilitation and cardiac exercise have on CHD? And can vaccination prevent heart attacks?
The aims and services of the German Heart Foundation will also be presented. There will also be an opportunity to get answers to individual questions during an audience discussion.
The information evening starts at 6.00 pm and ends at around 8.00 pm. No registration is required to attend. The event will be held in German.
About Coronary Heart Disease
In order for the heart to perform its vital work around the clock, it must be supplied with sufficient blood. This task is performed by the coronary arteries. If deposits - known as plaques - build up there, the vessels can become increasingly constricted, colloquially known as "calcification". This process is known as coronary heart disease.
It is the underlying disease and precursor to a heart attack. At the same time, CHD is the most common heart disease in Germany with around 540,000 hospital admissions and the leading cause of death with 126,000 deaths per year, 46,600 of which are heart attack deaths. "Despite the success of cardiovascular medicine in drastically reducing the CHD death rate in recent decades, the pressure to act - particularly in the area of prevention - remains high. We therefore welcome the impetus provided by this year's Heart Weeks," emphasises Professor Ulrich Hofmann, Managing Senior Physician of Medical Clinic I at the UKW.
