Wear Red Day 5th february is a campaign promoted, by American Heart Association to create awareness amongst women, that heart disease is not just more of a Men Disease, but Women too are, very drastically affected by it. On this day all women are required to wear red as it is marked as National Wear Red Day . By doing this, they are more of into educating the women about the risk, they may come across.
Reports show that almost 90% of women are suffering from some kind of medical problem and almost 60 women die in an hour, and to mention, heart disease is the most common to be the reason of mortality amongst women.
Having an understanding that certain factors, such as age, family history of hereditary diseases, certain groups based on localities, cannot be put aside for being basis of certain cases, reported as heart problem, still precautions and adopting proper health practices can help to fight and eradicate the lethal disease
There are many indications that may alarm any one, for the said disease and to name a few high blood pressures, obesity, diabetes may top the list. More over, by practicing this, it does not mean that this is the only day to promote the awareness, but by putting in extra efforts, we can lend a very helpful hand. These efforts may be to arrange some small meeting or organize an event in our office or locality to educate the women and people around us.
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