The Heart Truth is a campaign meant to raise awareness of the risk of heart disease in women. The campaign is sponsored in the United States by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, an organization of the United States Department of Health and Human Services; a similar campaign is promoted in Canada by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. It focuses mainly on educating women aged forty to sixty, as that is the time when the risk of heart disease begins to increase.
Former First Ladies Nancy Reagan (left) and Laura Bush (right) dedicate The Heart Truth First Ladies Red Dress Collection at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on February 28, 2007
Group shot of the models from the 2005 Red Dress Collection
Hilary Duff at The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show in 2009
Laila Ali
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is the third largest Institute of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. It is tasked with allocating about $3.6 billion in FY 2020 in tax revenue to advancing the understanding of the following issues: development and progression of disease, diagnosis of disease, treatment of disease, disease prevention, reduction of health care disparities within the American population, and advancing the effectiveness of the US medical system. NHLBI's Director is Gary H. Gibbons (2012–present).
Image: William H. Stewart, photo portrait as surgeon general
Image: Donald S. Fredrickson 1961
Image: Nabel in her lab at the NHLBI
Image: Susan Shurin