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Stars step out for women’s heart health awareness

Go red for women’s heart health! Celebrities, designers, and survivors joined together for the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2018 “Go Red for Women” red dress runway event in New York.

The February event is part of “The Heart Truth®” campaign, launched in 2002 by NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the AHA. The campaign brings awareness to heart disease in women. The disease is the number one killer of women in the U.S.

Image credit: Nichelle S. Lewis/NHLBI

April 24, 2018

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