Wear red to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and help save lives.
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Join NHLBI, The Heart Truth®, and organizations around the country on National Wear Red Day®, celebrated each year on the first Friday in February, to bring greater attention to heart disease as a leading cause of death for Americans.
On this day people wear the color red in order to raise and spread awareness to help eradicate heart disease and stroke in millions of women all over the nation. Cardiovascular disease causes 1 in 3 deaths in women every year. This makes it the number one health related killer in women.
National Wear Red Day is intended to help raise awareness of heart disease, in particular among women. Heart disease is often generally associated with men, but cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women. Every year, nearly 500,000 American women die from heart disease and stroke.