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About American Heart Month

Learn how you can raise awareness about preventing heart disease.
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Live a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle

Heart disease is largely preventable. Learn what you can do to keep your heart healthy.
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Join the #OurHearts Movement

There’s a lot you can do to prevent heart disease—and it's all easier when you have social support.

Outreach Toolkit

Here you will find information about heart disease, the importance of social support for reaching heart health goals, educational materials to use in your community, social media resources, and more.

#OurHearts

#OurHearts is a national effort to encourage and motivate people to adopt heart-healthy behaviors, together. Research shows having social support and personal networks makes getting regular physical activity, eating healthy, losing weight, and quitting smoking easier. Check out our interactive map to see how others around the country are being heart healthy.
#OurHearts Interactive Map
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National Wear Red Day®

National Wear Red Day® is celebrated the first Friday of February. Wear red and encourage others to do the same to bring awareness that heart disease is a leading cause of death in the U.S., and that it's largely preventable.
View National Wear Red Day Resources
Related Initiatives
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The Heart Truth®

For more than a decade, The Heart Truth® program has worked to raise awareness about women’s risk for heart disease—a leading cause of death in the United States—and to help women take the steps needed for a heart-healthy life.
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National Wear Red Day®

Thanks to everyone around the country who wore red and got their hearts pumping with us on Feb. 5 to celebrate National Wear Red Day®! Keep using #OurHearts on social media to show us how you support heart health all year!
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Your Healthiest Self: Wellness Toolkits

Each person’s “healthiest self” is different. We have different bodies, minds, living situations, and people influencing our lives. Each area can impact your overall health. This means we each have a unique set of health needs. Use these wellness toolkits to find ways to improve your well-being in any area you’d like.

Get in Touch

Community organizations and corporations interested in becoming a partner of the program or sponsoring a signature American Heart Month event should contact us using one of the methods below.
Phone
1-877-NHLBI4U (1-877-645-2448)

For access to free Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), dial 7-1-1 on your telephone.

Postal Mail

NHLBI Center for Health Information
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
United States