Happy Valentines Day! 11 Resources for Nurturing Women’s Heart Health
Happy Valentine’s Day!
February is American Heart Month. This Valentine’s Day let a woman close to you know you really care about the health of her heart. Share these resources with her or encourage her to talk to her doctor about keeping her heart healthy!
1. Women’s Health – Heart Health and Stroke Women’s Health – Heart Health and Stroke is a project of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health
2. Million Hearts Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next five years. It brings together communities, health systems, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and private-sector partners from across the country to fight heart disease and stroke.
3. The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease Women Heart champions prevention, and early detection, accurate diagnosis and proper treatment of women’s heart disease.
4. Heart Healthy Women HeartHealthyWomen.org is a joint project of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, the Office on Women’s Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, and WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. Their mission is to provide women with in-depth, up-to-date information on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart and blood vessel diseases, eliminate gender and racial disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, and increase the participation of women in clinical trials of cardiovascular disease.
5. 2011 Heart Disease Prevention Guidelines for Women The American Heart Association, in collaboration with national organizations dedicated to women’s health including the Office on Women’s Health, have released new life‑saving guidelines for the prevention of heart disease.
6. Risk Assessment Tool for Estimating Your 10-year Risk of Having a Heart Attack Factors like your age, cholesterol levels, and blood pressure affect your heart health. Use this web tool to determine your 10-year risk of having a heart attack.
7. Heart Healthy Eating Facts Sheet from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health
8. Cardiovascular Research Foundation The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) is an independent, non-profit academic institution dedicated to improving the survival and quality of life of individuals with cardiovascular disease. CRF launched the Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative in 1995 in accordance with their commitment to promote excellence in women’s cardiovascular medicine by addressing gender disparities and improving the treatment and outcomes of women with heart disease.
9. Go Red for Women Short Film: Just a Little Heart Attack The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women presents a short film about a supermom who takes care of everyone else and learns the lesson that she must look after herself as well.
10. Heart Healthy Handbook for Women The National Institute for Health ( NIH) handbook for women’s heart health.
11 The Heart Truth The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s campaign for women’s heart health. In 2012, The Heart Truth marks a decade of commitment to women’s heart health. During February’s American Heart Month, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) reaffirms its commitment to increasing awareness about heart disease among women and helping women take steps to reduce their own personal risk of developing heart disease. One of the campaign’s signature American Heart Month activities, the Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, serves as a red alert to women that heart disease doesn’t care what you wear—it’s the #1 killer of women.
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