National Wear Red Day for heart health awareness

National wear red day

National Wear Red Day is a day in February when many people wear red to show their support for the awareness of heart disease. It occurs in the U.S. on the first Friday in February each year.

Friday, February 3, 2012 is National Wear Red Day when Americans nationwide will wear red to show their support for women's heart health.

National Institute of Health suggests that you show off your favorite red dress, red shirt, red tie, or Red Dress Pin to raise awareness that heart disease—the #1 killer of women—is largely preventable. 

So, join the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, and many other groups to promote National Wear Red Day in your local community. 

The Heart Truth^® created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002 to remind women of the need to protect their heart health, and inspire them to take action. National Wear Red Day promotes the symbol and provides an opportunity for everyone—men and women alike—to unite in this life-saving awareness-to-action movement by wearing anything and everything red!

The Heart Truth—is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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References

National Institute of Health (NIH) Wear Red Day page

The Heart Truth