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Rock your Red and Be the Beat for the women you love! 

Wear Red Day brings awareness to women’s heart health. Why? Because losing even one woman to cardiovascular disease is too many.

Cardiovascular disease causes 1 in 3 deaths in women every year making it the number one health related killer in women. The good news is 87% of all heart issues are believed to be preventable making awareness, education, research, and resources vital to the cause this event supports.

While overall death rates from heart disease and stroke declined over the past two decades, these gains were not equitably shared among people who are from the Black, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native or Hispanic/Latino communities. 

Black Americans continue to experience the highest death rates due to heart disease and stroke.  Black Americans experience a nearly 30% higher death rate from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and a 45% higher death rate from stroke compared with non-Hispanic white Americans. Black and Hispanic/Latino patients experience significantly lower survival to hospital discharge than white patients even when controlling for socioeconomic status.

The Canadian Women's Heart Health Alliance is a network of experts and advocates from across Canada aiming to improve women's cardiovascular health across the lifespan.