Cardia is a simple, easy-to-use maternal heart health awareness app that helps pregnant and postpartum users understand heart-related risks, recognize warning signs, and connect pregnancy experiences to lifelong cardiovascular health.

Pregnancy and postpartum health can reveal important signs about a person’s long-term heart health. Conditions such as preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, shortness of breath, chest pain, swelling, and abnormal heart symptoms may increase future cardiovascular risk.

Cardia helps users understand these connections through clear education, personalized recommendations, advocacy support, and community-centered resources.

Our goal is to make heart health information during pregnancy and postpartum as simple, accessible, and actionable as possible. We want users to feel seen!

Heart disease is a major maternal health concern, but many warning signs during pregnancy and postpartum are overlooked or dismissed.

Symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, severe fatigue, swelling, high blood pressure, or severe headaches may seem separate, but together they can point to a larger cardiovascular issue.

Many users also do not realize that pregnancy complications can affect heart health beyond pregnancy and postpartum.

Cardia focuses on three main ideas:

Helping users understand heart health risks, warning signs, pregnancy complications, and long-term cardiovascular effects.

Helping users feel supported instead of alone while navigating pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and future heart health.

Helping users connect symptoms, pregnancy history, health conditions, and heart disease risk over time.

• Easy onboarding
• Heart health-focused education
• Short educational reels
• Personalized recommendations based on risk factors
• Pregnancy and postpartum cardiovascular warning-sign awareness
• Advocacy prompts for talking to healthcare providers
• Community and support resources
• Apple HealthKit integration for heart-related data

For the hackathon demo, Cardia includes:

• A simple user flow
• Pregnancy/postpartum status selection
• Heart health and risk factor selection
• Personalized heart health education feed
• Tag-based recommendation logic
• Awareness content about cardiovascular symptoms and complications
• Advocacy-focused messages
• Community support concept

Cardia is built around the idea that maternal heart health should be easy to understand and easy to act on.

By making heart health education simple, personalized, and supportive, Cardia helps users recognize that pregnancy and postpartum experiences can shape lifelong cardiovascular health, not just health during one stage of life.

Cardia is for educational and supportive purposes only. It does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment. Users should contact a healthcare professional for medical advice and seek emergency care for urgent symptoms such as chest pain, severe shortness of breath, fainting, heavy bleeding, seizures, or severe headache