Overview
- Communities marked the day with walks, red-lit landmarks and the kickoff of nine-week Woman of Impact fundraising and education campaigns.
- The American Heart Association urged people to wear red, learn hands-only CPR, and make lifestyle changes to reduce preventable heart and stroke events.
- AHA data show nearly 45% of U.S. women live with cardiovascular disease, which causes about one in three female deaths and drives over one-third of maternal deaths.
- To close evidence gaps, the AHA invited women to join Research Goes Red as women have been underrepresented in heart studies, comprising about 38% of trial participants.
- Clinicians highlighted risk across life stages, symptom differences that can mask heart attacks, mental health’s impact on heart risk, and lower rates of bystander CPR for women.