This is my advice for making the most of American Heart Month. I hope you Go Red for yourself and spread the word. Please feel free to use this graphic, just please link back here. Thanks! – Jen
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Feb 2015
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Nov 2014
When I was a kid I loved the playground taunt “anything boys can do girls can do better” and I probably secretly still do. But here’s one thing women could stand to under-achieve on — getting, and dying from, heart disease. More women than men die each year from heart disease and stroke. In fact, […]
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Jul 2014
I like this new Go Red for Women video, because it is something we can all do. Tell other women to know their risk, know the signs, and seek care. Because the women in our lives are one of our biggest strengths.
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May 2014
Did you know that high blood pressure during pregnancy is very highly correlated with heart disease later in life? I didn’t either, until after my heart attack. Not sure the ER doctors or possibly even the cardiologist I first saw that day were aware of this critical risk factor. When I was pregnant with my […]
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Feb 2014
Go Red for Women celebrates its 10th birthday this year. In the 10 years since Go Red for Women and The Heart Truth began raising awareness of women’s risk of heart disease, more than 330 women per day were saved. That’s almost 14 women per hour, per day, for 10 years. Women’s awareness of the […]
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Feb 2014
Welcome to American Heart Month! I am partnering with The Heart Truth, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s women’s heart health initiative to take the myHeart28 challenge this month. I hope you’ll join me. It’s easy, just complete one simple task a day (today’s is “do squats for one minute”). Share the challenge and […]
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Jan 2014
It’s heart month time again! This year is my third American Heart Month as a survivor and while I’m not quite as busy as last year, what with that spokeswomaning gig and all, I’m still ready to Go Red and I hope you’ll join me. Here are lots of ways to Go Red in 2014! […]
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Sep 2013
September 9-15 is “National Invisible Chronic Illness Week,” and this meme — 30 Things About My Invisible Illness — is making the rounds of many online communities. Here’s my contribution to making heart disease more visible. 1. The illness I live with is heart disease (heart attack, coronary artery disease, endothelial dysfunction, microvascular disease). 2. […]
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Feb 2013
Jodi and I started along this heart attack journey at about the same time, a few states and many miles apart, finding each other months later through the sisterhood of heart blogging and reading the web at midnight. Jodi survived a massive “widow-maker” heart attack at age 42, and after recovering from the stun she […]
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Feb 2013
This guest author is the first heart sister I found after my heart attack. Looking online for anything that would help me make sense of what happened to me, I found Carolyn Thomas’ blog, Heart Sisters, and discovered her amazing in-depth research articles about women and heart disease. Carolyn is a speaker, advocate, certified health […]
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