Ninety percent of us have at least one risk factor for heart disease. This Friday is Go Red For Women day where everyone is encouraged to wear red to show the importance of heart health.
1. The Go Red For Women movement
- Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association’s national movement to make women aware of their risk for heart disease, the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. and Utah, and to take action to reduce that risk.
- In its eighth year, Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association’s solution to save women’s lives. Too many women die each year because they are unaware that heart disease is their No. 1 killer.
- On average in the U.S., almost one woman dies every minute of this largely preventable disease. In Utah, more than 5 females die from heart disease and stroke in Utah each day, accounting for nearly 1,500 deaths each year.
- Ninety percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease.
- Eighty percent of cardiac events in women may be prevented if they make the right choices for their hearts, involving diet, exercise and abstinence from smoking.
- We want Utah women to know these alarming statistics and to connect them with their own heart health, compelling them to adopt or improve heart-healthy habits and support the cause with their time and money as they join millions of others to take part in the movement.
- To get involved in the Go Red For Women movement, please call (801) 484-3838.
2. The Circle of Red
· An elite group of women (and men) who have the passion and resources to significantly impact the community by providing a personal commitment to help find a cure for the number one killer of women – heart disease.
· A Circle of Red Member is an individual who can provide a personal commitment of $1,000 or more and is willing to engage their friends to commit to a level of personal or corporate giving (separate from a group sponsorship)
· Benefits of participation as a Circle of Red Member include:
1. Help fund research grants needed to find a cure for Utah’s number one killer of women
2. Increase the awareness and prevention.
3. One (1) VIP seat at the Go Red For Women Luncheon next April
4. Opportunity to be a Go Red For Women Ambassador
5. Possible photo opportunity in a local magazine
6. Special verbal recognition during the Go Red For Women Luncheon
7. Special recognition in Go Red For Women Luncheon Program
8. Special educational and social events throughout the year
3. A study on women and heart disease (released on May 24th 2011)
· Researchers have found that heart failure risk is lower in women who often eat baked/broiled fish
Study Highlights:
· The risk of developing heart failure was lower for postmenopausal women who frequently ate baked or broiled fish, but higher for those who ate more fried fish.
· Dark fish such as salmon was healthier for the heart than tuna or white fish such as sole.
· Eating fried fish one or more times per week was associated with a 48 percent higher risk of heart failure in postmenopausal women compared to those who ate it infrequently.
- While previous studies have linked omega-3 fatty acids to a decrease in some types of heart disease, their precise relationship to heart failure risk was unclear. Researchers sought to clarify the connection between fish and heart failure risk in postmenopausal women.
- The results of this study are consistent with previous findings in studies of older American and Swedish populations, he said, “but the new study adds the interesting results on darker fish. They also suggest that baked/broiled fish is associated with reduced risk of heart failure through mechanisms other than reducing risk for a heart attack, a precursor to heart failure in some people.”
- In the United States, heart failure affects about 5.7 million people. Although the heart continues to function in this disease, it’s unable to pump blood efficiently enough to meet the body’s needs. Heart failure has many different causes, including smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, overweight, lack of physical activity and poor diet. It’s often treatable with lifestyle changes, medicine or surgery.
- Please visit your doctor and know your numbers – blood pressure, cholesterol, Body Mass Index, fasting glucose, etc.
· Reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal
If you'd like to take part in the Go Red For Women Luncheon... here is the information:
April 27, 2012
10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Downtown Marriott
75 South West Temple
Salt Lake City
(801) 484-3838
For more information, go to:
http://www.utahgoredluncheon.org.
