February is Heart Disease and Health Awareness Month

Heart disease claims approximately 1 million lives annually.  Tell us your personal experience, family member, or friend's experience with heart disease and health.  

Heart disease describes a range of conditions that affect your heart. Heart diseases include:

• Blood vessel disease, such as coronary artery disease
• Heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias)
• Heart defects you're born with (congenital heart defects)
• Heart valve disease
• Disease of the heart muscle
• Heart infection

Many forms of heart disease can be prevented or treated with healthy lifestyle choices.

American Heart Month Statistics At a Glance

• Cardiovascular disease (CVD), listed as the underlying cause of death, accounted for 868,662 deaths in the US in 2017. •
• CVD claim more lives each year than all forms of cancer and Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease (CLRD) combined.
• • Between 2015 and 2018, 126.9 million American adults had some form of CVD. Between 2016 to 2017, direct and indirect costs of total CVD were $363.4 billion ($216.0 billion in direct costs and $147.4 billion in lost productivity/mortality).
• • In 2015 to 2018, 58.8% of non-Hispanic (NH) Black females and 60.1% of NH Black males had some form of CVD.
• • In 2018, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) was the leading cause (42.1%) of deaths attributable to CVD in the US, followed by stroke (17.0%), high blood pressure (11.0%), heart failure (9.6%), diseases of the arteries (2.9%), and other CVD (17.4%).
• • CVD is the leading global cause of death, and accounted for approximately 18.6 million deaths in 2019.
• • CVD and stroke accounted for 13% of total health expenditures in 2014 to 2015. This is more than any major diagnostic group.

• Ways to get involved:

  • Participate in National Wear Red Day on February 3 to end heart disease and stroke in women.
  • Promote awareness February 7-14 during Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.

                                                       Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2017 At-A-Glance

February 4th is National Wear Red Day 2022.  

Here are some ideas of jewelry to add for the month of February and especially for February 2nd.  

#wearredday  #thehouseofawareness

Tell us your personal experience, family member, or friend's experience with heart disease and health.  

Other Causes in February.

*Anorexia Nervosa Periwinkle Ribbon  *Bile Duct Cancer Green Ribbon  *Bipolar Disorder Green Ribbon  *Bulimia Nervosa Periwinkle Ribbon  *Cardiovascular Disease Red Ribbon *Cholangiocarcinoma Green Ribbon  *Congenital Heart Defects Red & Blue Ribbon *Congenital Heart Disease Red & Blue Ribbon  *Congestive Heart Failure Red Ribbon *Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Lime Green Ribbon  *Eating Disorders Periwinkle Ribbon  *Ectodermal Dysphasia Teal Ribbon  *Evans Syndrome Red Ribbon  *Heart Disease Heart Awareness  *Macular Degeneration Purple Ribbon  *Marfan Syndrome Red Ribbon  *Noonan's Syndrome A Red & Blue Ribbon  *Rare Disease Zebra Print Ribbon  *Rheumatoid Arthritis Blue & Purple Ribbon  *Wolf-Parkinson-White Red Ribbon