National Wear Red Day is Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. But it takes just one person to start Wear Red Day on any day of the year. Let that person be you! Consider organizing a Wear Red Day at your workplace, with your faith-based organization, at your community center or even in your own home. Speak up. Inspire your friends, neighbors, coworkers and family members to show their support for the fight against heart disease!
DID YOU KNOW:
- Only 13% of women view heart disease as a health threat, even though it’s women's No. 1 killer.
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) kills over 480,000 women a year, about one per minute.
- One in three adult females and males in the United States suffers from a form of CVD.
- CVD claims more lives than the next four most common causes of death combined.
- On average, an American dies of CVD every 35 seconds.
- Coronary heart disease is the No. 1 single killer of women over age 25.
- 64% of women who died suddenly of coronary heart disease had no previous symptoms.
- One in 2.6 female deaths are from CVD, compared with one in 30 from breast cancer.
- Heart disease rates in post-menopausal women are two to three times higher than in pre-menopausal women of the same age.
- Stroke is the #3 cause of death for American women, and is a leading cause of serious, long-term disability.
- Stroke kills more women than men. In 2003, females represented 61% of stroke deaths.
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