Let’s dress up!!
Red Dress Campaign
Sister loves red. Red is a color full of life, energy and pizzaz. It makes her feel fancy. So you can imagine Sister’s glee when the American Heart Association launched the National Wear Red Day.
The following are some statistics according to the CDC:
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, killing 292,188 women in 2009—that’s 1 in every 4 female deaths.
- Although heart disease is sometimes thought of as a “man’s disease,” around the same number of women and men die each year of heart disease in the United States. Despite increases in awareness over the past decade, only 54% of women recognize that heart disease is their number 1 killer.
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death for African American and white women in the United States. Among Hispanic women, heart disease and cancer cause roughly the same number of deaths each year. For American Indian or Alaska Native and Asian or Pacific Islander women, heart disease is second only to cancer.
- About 5.8% of all white women, 7.6% of black women, and 5.6% of Mexican American women have coronary heart disease.
- Almost two-thirds (64%) of women who die suddenly of coronary heart disease have no previous symptoms. Even if you have no symptoms, you may still be at risk for heart disease.
The National Wear Red Day® is designed to raise awareness of this critical issues surrounding heart disease and women. Each year, on the first Friday in February, millions of women and men come together to wear red, take action and commit to fighting this deadly disease. Funds raised help the American Heart Association to help women by offering educational programs, increase women’s understanding about their risk for heart disease and support research to discover scientific knowledge about heart health.*
Red comes in so many shades from orange-ish, warm-ish to cool-ish blue-ish. Whatever suits your fancy. GO RED!! GO WOMEN!
And don’t forget to go for a walk.
*An excerpt from the Go Red For Women website.