National Wear Red Day®: Join The #HeartChat
“Our mothers, daughters, sisters and friends are at risk. Heart disease and stroke cause 1 in 3 deaths among women each year – more than all cancers combined.” GoRedForWomen.org
National Wear Red Day®: Join The #HeartChat
What it Means to Go Red
Why Go Red? Heart disease and stroke cause 1 in 3 deaths among women each year, killing approximately one woman every 80 seconds. Fortunately, we can change that because 80 percent of cardiac and stroke events may be prevented with education and action. That’s why this year we are asking that you wear red on National Wear Red Day® and Donate to Go Red For Woman. By doing so you help support educational programs to increase women’s awareness and critical research to discover scientific knowledge about cardiovascular health via GoRedForWomen.org.
Do You Know What it Means to Go Red For Women? Friday is National Wear Red Day® and we can join women and men around the country to raise awareness about this insidious disease that takes the lives of thousands of women every year. Since the first National Wear Red Day® event in 2003, the campaign to save women’s lives against heart disease has focused on research and education to help us find ways to create and maintain a heart healthy lifestyle. If we make an extra effort to change our bad eating habits and sedentary lifestyle, our chances of surviving a stroke or heart attack would increase. It is imperative that we take the time to make sure that we have our annual check ups/Women’s Visits, and that we take every chest pain and discomfort seriously.
Quite often, women dismiss the signs they get and by the time they respond, they are in full cardiac distress. Join me on Twitter on Friday, 2/5 at 2:00 PM EST for #HeartChat! I’ll be tweeting alongside @Woman’s Day Magazine, @Heart Truth, and @Go Red For Women as we discuss heart disease risks, and how to learn about your personal risks. In addition, you can join the American Heart Association (AHA), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the Office on Women’s Health (OWH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and many other groups to promote National Wear Red Day in your local community. National Wear Red Day® is a registered trademark of HHS and AHA.
National Wear Red Day®: Join The #HeartChat
CBS 19 Women’s Heart Attack Symptoms
Are You Planning to Wear Red on Friday and Support the Fight Against Heart Disease? If you were aware of the sobering statistics on heart disease, your answer would be a resounding YES! Did you know that the following stats mean you or someone you know might someday be in danger of having a heart-related health matter? “An estimated 43 million women in the U.S. are affected by heart disease. Ninety percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease. Since 1984, more women than men have died each year from heart disease. The symptoms of heart disease can be different in women and men, and are often misunderstood. While 1 in 31 American women dies from breast cancer each year, 1 in 3 dies of heart disease. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for African American women. Of African American women ages 20 and older, 46.9 percent have cardiovascular disease. Hispanic women are likely to develop heart disease 10 years earlier than Caucasian women.” We need to educate ourselves and our loved ones about the subject, and there are many resources/tool-kits that we can use to gain much-needed insights and answers to questions that might arise as we spread the word. To view the full findings, download a copy of the Heart Disease and Stroke 2012 Statistical Update.
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“So what we’re doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.” Cheryl Hines
National Wear Red Day®: Join The #HeartChat
Rise Above Heart Failure Heart Month
Since its inception, Go Red For Women has successfully helped women prevent strokes and heart disease in the following ways: Nearly 90% have made at least one healthy behavior change; More than one-third has lost weight; More than 50% have increased their exercise; 6 out of 10 have changed their diets; More than 40% have checked their cholesterol levels; One third has talked with their doctors about developing heart health plans; Today, nearly 300 fewer women die from heart disease and stroke each day; Death in women has decreased by more than 30 percent over the past 10 years. Even with all the successes under their belt, the Go Red For Women campaign is determined to ensure that every woman knows about the risks and to spread the word in their communities.
If we work together, we can achieve more to help reduce or eradicate the incidents of heart disease and strokes in our households and communities. There is still plenty of work to do. Did you know that, since 1984, more women than men have died from heart disease and stroke? Whether we choose to take care of our health or stay in denial, the fact is that each of us will be affected by heart disease; it could happen to a friend, a family member, or to us, and we should be ready to win the fight against heart disease. Together, we can improve the health of all women. How can you protect yourself and your loved ones? Join the Twitter #heartchat on Friday to learn more and participate!
What more can we do about it? We must make sure to reduce stress in our lives and get check-ups regularly. We can donate or volunteer our time, participate in local events that raise awareness of heart disease, and share the invaluable toolkit/resources provided by the NHLBI. We can participate in the #HeartChat initiative and spread the word. We can be proactive by reaching out to our elected officials to demand equitable resources for all of us. The Go Red for Women Campaign, wants us all to remember the following lifesaving tips:
What are you waiting for? Get your heart health in order and share your thoughts with the world.
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Positive Motivation Tip: Your heart is a precious life force. Take care of your heart and make sure your family does too.
PHOTO CREDITS/ATTRIBUTIONS: Heart collage from my Personal Collection, Red Dress from Go Red,
Until Next Time…
Ask. Believe. Receive. ©
Elizabeth Obih-Frank
Mirth and Motivation
Positive Kismet
This was a great important thing to bring out. It’s important to bring awareness and yourself to be checked to catch things early
Wow this is so cool. I love the videos and i want to join in the Heartchat
This is actually a good thing to remind everyone because everyone is prone to this one. And a good lifestyle is actually a good thing to have specially in today’s pollution and stress.
What a great way to kinda celebrate heart’s day. Gotta stay heart-healthy!
Heart disease is a serious matter. I hope they make this an international wear red day campaign.
Ok, I’ll have to wear red on Friday – thanks for bringing awareness to these very important lifesaving tips!
will share this to spread the word. first time I found out about this thanks!
What a great post. I enjoy watching the videos. I wanna join to the heartchat
I have a couple red tops to choose from for this day! 🙂
Thank you for bringing attention to this initiative. I know that heart disease is prominent amongst African American women, but most don’t know that or how to fight against it. Great post!
xo,
Roxy
It is a wonderful success of marketing that the color red will always be associated with February, which is the month of Hearts Day — Valentines Day. ON a more serious note, lay fora about the heart are always useful for patient education.
I love what they do. I love this post.
Never knew there was such movement, will definitely join the wear red day tomorrow and hashtag #Heartchat 🙂
Supporting causes like these does open my eyes to many things i was ignorant about especially health related.
More attention is paid to heart disease in men so I am always happy to see when women are included
The concept of wearing red this Friday is very commendable. Wish you all the success in this endeavor.
This is such an important cause. I’ve been wearing red on National Wear Red Day for years now to do my part to help raise awareness.
I Ambert ready to wear red! Thanks for the clarification and reminder
In Singapore, we are wearing Red because it is a chinese new year. Health is above all and we should not ignore it at any cost. It is necessary to remind all to take care of their hearts and wearing red will serve as an alert.
This is important. Heart disease is such a huge disease for women, but the studies are mostly done on men.
This is so important! Heart disease runs rampant in my family, so it’s especially close to my heart to share the message.
I will definitely wear red on Friday! Although it isn’t womens heart disease, my Grandfather had to have a quadruple bypass this year so it’s something that rings true to me.
What a sobering and eye opening post. I had no idea heart disease was so prevalent among women. 1 in every 3 deaths! That should be enough to make us all pause and evaluate our lifestyles. Thanks for compiling this information complete with videos. You may have saved a life!
43 Million women are affected by heart disease! I didn’t not know it was that many. I will definitely be wearing red on Friday!
At first read I thought it was all about Valentine’s Day.. after reading, I am now going to wear red and be proud.
Great reminder. My family has a medical history of heart disease and I regularly get a 2-D echocardiogram for early disease detection.
Thank you for sharing this invaluable information. It’s true that heart disease is increasing year after year. There is only awareness and education we can spread to reduce the risk of heart failures.
I really didn’t know about this special day though yesterday it was world cancer day and we all were aware of it. Thanks for letting us know and will spread a word about it.
Thanks for the reminder to wear red. The hospital near me always has a dance to go with this.
I think it’s for the cause of raising the awareness of heart disease, let’s color the world red. It’s a lovely color and would also be really help in saving hearts.
Heart diseases are very scary. My grandmother had 2 attacks last couple of years and I really feel sorry for her. She has to take her medications daily.
I love watching the videos and i would love to join in the heartchat sounds exciting
This is a great way to spread awareness. Truth be told, it’s the first time I’ve heard of it. Thanks!
I am proud to fight for the prevention of heart disease and I hope others will do the right thing and join us!
With many illnesses which may run in the family or just highlighting general health issues, I understand how important it is to make people aware of these issues. My mother died from a form of breast cancer which had spread and had mutated in her body. Thankfully in the last 27 years, breast cancer treatment has come a long way. I am a cancer advocate for treatment and to find a cure.
Thanks for Sharing.
John Milnes
I have on red today and will wear it all day. I just found out yesterday that it’s national wear red day today and I want to be a part of it.
1 in 3, what appalling statistics!
Okay after reading this, I will be reading red today. Thanks for the informative video.
While heart disease in women is a growing concern and taking responsibility for our health is something we should all do using statistics incorrectly does not help anybody. In your post you quote ” While 1 in 31 American women dies from breast cancer each year, 1 in 3 dies of heart disease” Do you actually mean, of the women who die in America each year, 1in 31 die from breast cancer but 1 in 3 die of heart disease. There is a huge difference
I support Wear Red Day to remind all women to take initiative to care for their health and heart. Hope to spread awareness about this movement.
Every woman on my father’s side of the family has passed away from heart complications, so heart issues have long been on my radar. It’s great to see Woman’s Day having a Twitter party to spread information about women’s heart health.
Beautiful post! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Can’t believe this is not the first time reading this topic, because this means I’ve been reading your blog for more than a year! So gonna join the Nation Wear Red Day!
I agree that Heart disease and stroke has become a very common disease these days & that 1:3 ratio is really scary. This sounds like a wonderful campaign to create awareness that could help many of us.
Every woman on my father’s side of the family has passed away from heart complications, so heart issues have long been on my radar. It’s great to see Woman’s Day having a Twitter party to spread information about women’s heart health.
What a wonderful post on raising awareness on such an important topic. I was born with a congenital heart defect so posts like this hit close to home. These are great life saving tips and a wonderful way to raise awareness. Thank you for sharing
This is dear to our heart as my wife is a heart patient.Our grandchild is actually jumping in the AHA Jump for Heart event soon for her MiMi.
What a great iniciative! It’s so important to be aware of all the channels we can have to discuss such an importan issue
What a great cause. Thank you for spreading awareness through your blog 🙂
Some interesting and quite frightening facts – thanks for sharing and helping to raise awareness!
This Go Red for Women Campaign is a great opportunity to help raise awareness about heart disease! It’s important to make the effort to prevent it and follow lifesaving tips, they’re valuable! Thanks for sharing such useful post!
Its good to know that there are so many campaigns now for us women. Heart disease is one of the high risk illness here in the Philippines
I would wear red! I didn’t know anything about National Wear Red Day. Thanks for letting me know
Women are such natural caretakers of others, you would think it would fit that we’d make sure to take care of ourselves too. It’s just not so, and bringing more awareness to programs like this is a great way to inform women. We need to make ourselves a priority too!
Heart diseases are indeed a true problem for many people. It’s great to hear about this way of creating awareness for the matter. Maybe more and more people will go to the doctor’s office and get themselves checked on a regular basis in order to prevent or detect at an early stage any heart problem.
I haven’t gone to the doctor in a while so this makes me think of making an appointment, thanks.
The numbers are atrocious. I’m sorry to hear they are so high, always, but happy to see any and all who are helping to make that number smaller.
I unintentionally wore red on Friday. I wasn’t aware of the day.
It is a very powerful message. A lot of women don’t follow through when they feel symptoms of a heart attack because they don’t want to inconvenience anyone or don’t want to look a fool but better safe than sorry I say
Exactly. We spend more time worrying and caring for others that we forget to care for ourselves. Heart disease can happen to anyone. It is not reserved for certin groups of people. You could be healthy and have a ticking heart waiting to fail…
Love the post!! I definitely participated in wearing red on Friday. Heart disease is something I’ve witnessed first hand in my family. It is devastating. Thank you
Heart disease in women is something that definitely needs more awareness. We always think of it as only affecting men but it affects so many women as well!
This is such a great cause. I totally wore red! 🙂 I think that it is very important to watch the things that we put in our bodies, and to try and destress, in order to keep our heart healthy
I love that this is being advocated. Awareness is so necessary and honestly, it’s small things like this in social media that will absolutely help spread knowledge across the world. Great job promoting such issues!
To stay heart healthy, I eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly, and maintain a healthy weight.
I think this is a great iniciative and the more the merrier thanks for sharing this
killing woman every 80 seconds i cannot imagine. would love to support this
I love this! It is important to be aware of things like this. My sister passed away from cancer – health problems are very real and very often they can be treated or prevented it caught early on.
Great info in going red.
Thank you for sharing this, raising awareness is so important! Its a cause close to my heart
To keep my heart health, I eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly, and maintain a healthy weight. I want to be around for my family as long as possible.
This is a really great cause to education people on! If people even just used the free machines at Walmart or other grocery stores that help check blood pressure, it would really help save lives!!
I had no idea it was so high in women! Its so nice to see someone raising awareness
I’ve heard of National Wear Red Day. It’s a great cause and something we all need to pay attention to.
I think we forget men are not the only heart attack victims, or that women exhibit different symptoms than men do for heart attacks, that often mimic other things. Good information.
I have forgotten all about Wear Red Day! Appreciate the reminder this month.
I can’t think of anything scarier than to have those symptoms, knowing all this. Still, glad to have the info.
What a beautiful message. Thank you for sharing.
I love that you’ve gotten so involved in this campaign. It’s true – women don’t often pay attention to their health until it’s too late.
My mother is one of those women, and she lived unhealthily right up until her first heart attack – she was in her early 30s. Now in her later 50s, she’s got just about every diagnosis under the sun, and it all started with heart and vascular disease. I wish things like this had been so mainstream when she was my age.