Heart Disease Is The #1 Killer Of Women / Educational Video. US Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; The Heart Truth; The Heart Truth is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services. Designed to warn women of their #1 health threat, The Heart Truth created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002 to deliver an urgent wake-up call to American women. The Red Dress reminds women of the need to protect their heart health, and inspires them to take action. Producer: National Institutes of Health; Keywords: hhs.gov; public_safety. Creative Commons license: Public Domain; Ask American women what disease they’re most scared of, and the vast majority will answer without hesitation: breast cancer. They may even cite the ominous statistic that 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in her life. But what most women don’t realize is that they actually have far more to fear from heart disease, which will strike 1 out of every 3. More than 500000 women die in the US each year of cardiovascular disease, making it, not breast cancer (40000 deaths annually), their No. 1 killer. Women and heart disease? Better believe it. For while most people still think of cardiovascular trouble as …

















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