Calvert County Health Department

National Wear Red Day Friday, February 5, 2010

National Wear Red Day is an annual event held on the first Friday in February. On this day, women and men across the country wear red to unite in the national movement to give women a personal and urgent wake-up call about their risk of heart disease. Americans nationwide took women's health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness.

The Calvert County Health Department encourages you to wear red on Febraury 5th. Groups, organizations, and businesses are welcome to submit photos of their participants wearing red. Those photographs will be displayed on this page.

Pictures From Participants Around the County in 2009:

If your organization participates and you take photographs of your staff please submit pictures to: CommunityHealthCCHD@dhmh.state.md.us.

Heart Disease Doesn't Care What You Wear—It's the number one Killer of Women. The statistics are alarming:

• One in 4 Maryland women dies of heart disease
• Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in Maryland
• Heart disease affects women of all racial and ethnic groups

Although significant progress has been made in increasing awareness among women from 34 percent in 2000 to 57 percent in 2006—most women fail to make the connection between risk factors and their personal risk of developing heart disease. For more information on how you can decrease your risk of developing heart disease, please visit http://www.goredforwomen.org/.