American Heart Month 2024 Toolkits

February is American Heart Month, a time when all people—especially women—are encouraged to focus on their cardiovascular health.

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. Over half of US women do not recognize that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women.1

DHDSP aims to shed light on this important topic so that women no longer experience delayed recognition, diagnosis, and treatment for cardiac events, such as heart attacks.2

Heart-health disparities specific to women widen and deepen when combined with race, ethnicity, and other social factors.3 We encourage individuals, health care and public health professionals, and our partners to help close the disparities gap.

Using this 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.

Tools and Resources

Quick Links

Connect With Us

Connect with other health care professionals and share the latest in hypertension control and about #HeartMonth from the Million Hearts® LinkedIn page.

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Follow @CDCHeart_Stroke and @MillionHeartsUS on Twitter to share our #HeartMonth tweets directly on your pages.

Share #HeartMonth posts and resources directly from Million Hearts® on Facebook.

Spread the Word

Share these graphics and social messages with your followers for American Heart Month. Don’t forget to tag @CDCHeart_Stroke in your posts and follow us on social media.

Collage of six different women. My heart, my voice. Listen to your heart. Raise your voice. Protect your health.
Collage of four different women. My heart, my voice. Listen to your heart. Raise your voice. Protect your health.
Collage of three different women that work in health care settings. My heart, my voice. Protect women's hearts.
Collage of four different women working in health care settings. Listen to women's voices, protect women's hearts.

Women often experience delayed recognition, diagnosis, and treatment for heart attacks. They deserve to be heard—especially when it comes to their hearts.

Commit to defending your patients’ heart health this American Heart Month. Empower women to raise their voices. #HeartMonth https://bit.ly/3OAuNCy

Listen to your heart. Raise your voice. Protect your health.

Women are often subject to delayed recognition, diagnosis, and treatment for heart attacks. Use this toolkit to spread the word: it’s time to get loud to protect our hearts. #HeartMonth https://bit.ly/3ugjicP

Not all women are equally impacted by cardiovascular disease: Black women are nearly 60% more likely to have high blood pressure than White women. This American Heart Month, commit to increasing awareness of barriers to equitable health care. https://bit.ly/4bvEgF6

Listen to your heart. Raise your voice. Protect your health.

Women are often subject to delayed recognition, diagnosis, and treatment for heart attacks. Use this toolkit to spread the word: it’s time to get loud to protect our hearts. #HeartMonth

https://bit.ly/3SNmFRP

High blood pressure accounts for 1 in 5 deaths among women in the U.S. and is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Be proactive about heart health and learn about the risk factors for high blood pressure. https://bit.ly/4brWEi6

Listen to your heart. Raise your voice. Protect your health. High blood pressure during and after pregnancy is a leading cause of maternal illness and death. Learn the warning signs and talk to a doctor if something isn’t feeling right.https://bit.ly/4bq1VXz

Health equity is more than an ideal—it’s a requirement for a truly heart-healthy community. Disparities in heart health deepen based on gender, especially when coupled with race, ethnicity, and other social factors. Make health equity a primary focus in your practice. https://bit.ly/4boUvDT

References

  1. Cushman M, Shay CM, Howard VJ, Jiménez MC, Lewey J, McSweeney JC, et al., on  behalf  of  the American Heart Association. Ten-year differences in women’s awareness related  to coronary heart disease: results of the 2019 American Heart Association national survey: a special report from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2021;143:e239–e248.
  2. Wenger NK, Lloyd-Jones DM, Elkind MSV, Fonarow GC, Warner JJ, Alger HM, et al. Call to Action for Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Epidemiology, Awareness, Access, and Delivery of Equitable Health Care: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2022;145(23):e1059–e1071.
  3. Bey GS, Jesdale B, Forrester S, Person SD, Kiefe C. Intersectional effects of racial and gender discrimination on cardiovascular health vary among black and white women and men in the CARDIA study. SSM – Population Health. 2019;8:100446.