National Wear Red Day is Friday, February 1, 2008
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Special Anniversary Red Dress Pin. The Red Dress alerts women of The Heart Truth message: "Heart Disease Doesn't Care What You Wear—It is the #1 Killer of Women"
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National Wear Red Day—February 1, 2008— is a day when Americans nationwide will wear red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness.  This observance promotes the Red Dress symbol and provides an opportunity for everyone to unite in this life-saving awareness movement by showing off a favorite red dress, shirt, or tie, or Red Dress Pin.

This toolkit provides useful information and resources that you can use to help celebrate National Wear Red Day in your community.

 

Top Ways to Support National Wear Red Day
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Join the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease; American Heart Association; and many other groups to promote National Wear Red Day in your local community.

 

 
Women in Red Dresses

The Heart Truth—a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease—created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002 to deliver an urgent wakeup call to American women. 

 



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