February is Heart Awareness Month. The word of the month is heart! Hope you had a nice Valentine’s Day ❣️
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On the CDC website, they highlight, “This Heart Month, the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) is encouraging women to listen to their hearts and speak up for their health. Women in the United States are experiencing unacceptable and avoidable heart-related illness and death.” Heart disease is a leading cause of death for women.
DHDSP aims to shed light on this important topic so that women no longer experience delayed recognition, diagnosis, and treatment for cardiac events.
Using their website’s tools, help the women in your life listen to their hearts and raise their voices. When we encourage women to protect their own hearts, they can help others in their communities protect theirs.
Heart Disease, Stroke Maps, and Data
CDC.Gov
Again from the CDC Website, Geographic Patterns: Heart Disease Death Rates for 2018 through 2020 for Adults Aged 35 Years and Older by County. The map shows that concentrations of counties with the highest heart disease death rates – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Guam. Pockets of high-rate counties also were found in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, Texas, and Nevada.
Health Care Costs and Data Map information can be found HERE
Health Disease Death Rate Information
Printable and Shareable Handouts
- Managing My Blood Pressure [PDF – 173 KB]
Patients can use this printable list of questions to ask their health care team to help them manage their blood pressure. (Also available en español [PDF – 361 KB].) - My Blood Pressure Log [PDF – 611 KB]
People can use this printable log to keep track of their blood pressure measurements at home. (Also available en español [PDF – 192 KB].) - My First Blood Pressure Visit [PDF – 105 KB]
Encourage patients to record important blood pressure–related information on this page before their appointments. (Also available en español [PDF – 351 KB].) - The Correct Way to Measure Blood Pressure
Share this graphic with patients, family, and friends to show them the correct way to measure blood pressure. (Also available en español [PDF – 460 KB].)
Heartfelt
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This quote from Helen Keller touches on feeling with the heart. Matters of the heart are things in our lives that move us. They are things that touch our hearts, fill our hearts, and break our hearts. They are what make us fully human. Stay human everyone ❣️ Lynn
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