national wear red day2009

Promote Heart Disease Awareness: Wear Red Today
Today is National Wear Red Day—also called, Go Red for Women Day— when people are asked to wear red in order to promote awareness of heart disease and stroke in women.
Awareness of cardiovascular disease is improving day by day:
-In 2000,34 percent of women knew that heart disease was their gender's No.1 killer
-In 2003, 46 percent
-In 2006 57 percent
According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. African-American and Hispanic women are at higher risk of heart disease—and are less aware of its dangers—than white women. A study published in Circulation in 2006 showed that when women are aware of their heart disease risk, they're more likely to take action to reduce risk by exercising, eating more healthfully, and losing weight.national wear red day, wear red, american heart association, wear red on friday, wear red day 2009