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Festive Recipes for Heart Healthy Holidays
WomenHeart has curated an array of delicious holiday recipes. Our Vice President of Advocacy & Communications, Amy Friedrich-Karnik, likes to entertain. Her pick for the season is Pomegranate Pear Punch. With just seven ingredients - blood orange, sparkling blood...
5 Ways to Find Balance This Holiday Season
The holidays are upon us, and that means your social calendar AND your to-do list are probably filling up quickly. Between work parties and holiday gatherings, shopping trips and making meals, it's easy to feel stressed and overwhelmed. Holiday stress can have an...
This Giving Tuesday, Give From the Heart
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Giving Tuesday, a celebration that started as a day to counter the spending of Black Friday and Cyber Monday by donating to charities in need of support and quickly made its way to 70+ countries. In 2021 alone, nonprofits...
How to Talk to Your Family about Heart Health History
Approaching your loved ones and asking them about heart conditions or other diseases may be difficult. Maybe they don’t have all of the information; perhaps you feel uncomfortable talking about illness, or maybe the whole topic feels taboo in your family. In some...
Inequities in Health Outcomes for Women of Color
You may be familiar with the effects of factors like age and gender on people’s health. But did you know that race and ethnicity can play a significant role in health outcomes? First, people of certain ethnicities experience disproportionately higher rates of certain...
The Link Between Mental Health and Heart Disease
Multiple studies have shown a direct link between heart disease and mental health conditions like depression. In fact, 20% to 40% of patients who’ve gone through a major heart event meet the criteria for major depressive disorder. The link goes both ways — emotional...
Women and Heart Disease
Even in 2022, despite years of women's health advocacy, women's health issues are often overlooked or dismissed. Heart disease, for example, is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, yet women are often dismissed by doctors when they bring up their...
Making the Case for Women’s Health Research
While they may not have been able to traverse of the halls of Congress in person, WomenHeart Champions, Board and Scientific Advisory Council members nonetheless brought their voices to Washington. Throughout the day on March 2, nearly 40 advocates held approximately...
Thriving with Heart Disease
In the immediate aftermath of a heart attack or a heart disease diagnose, most women focus on surviving. They want to understand what happened and figure out how to get well. Only once they have had time to process this life-changing event do they start focusing on...
Offices on Women’s Health
We’ve come a long way in our evolution of defining “women’s health” over the last two decades. No longer are we limited to our reproductive organs, but women’s health is starting to be understood in a more wholistic way, as health across the lifespan. According to the...
The Link Between Heart Disease and Diabetes
Porothea was 46 years old and living with diabetes when she had a heart attack and stroke. Today she balances being a grandmother and health care worker with managing diabetes and heart failure. She’s also a WomenHeart Champion and encourages other women to know their...
Why Your Heart Matters Right Now
We have been trying hard to survive a pandemic in the past 16 months. For some of us, it has felt like a full-time job, and many have ignored their heart as a result of everything else. So many people have put off health care because it has not been the priority since...