Cincinnati American Heart Association

Impact Goal
For the first time, the American Heart Association has defined “ideal cardiovascular health,” identifying seven health factors and lifestyle behaviors that support heart health.

The association created the definition as part of its effort to achieve its new national goal: By 2020, improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20 percent while reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent. The novel focus of the new goal will be preventing heart disease and stroke, most notably by helping people identify and adopt healthier lifestyle choices. This will be the first time the American Heart Association has adopted better health as a principal goal.

“To date, there has been great success in reducing disability and death from heart disease and stroke in part through aggressive improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases and in limited uptake of measures to prevent heart disease and stroke,” said Clyde W. Yancy, M.D., American Heart Association president. “We achieved our 2010 goal of reducing death by heart disease and stroke by 25 percent—earlier and by a wider margin than we had targeted. However, too many people continue to have unrelenting exposure to known important risk factors for heart disease and stroke to the point that we are likely to begin seeing an increase in these diseases—and at an earlier age. That is a cause for alarm and a trend we need to stop now.”

Why we are here?

To this end, the association is committed to funding cutting-edge research and educating the community on the risks of heart disease and stroke and what action can be taken to reduce that risk.

You can make a difference

Volunteer, become an advocate, attend one of our many exciting events, or donate. For every dollar donated, more than $2.30 is reinvested in local Cincinnati-based research.

Call 513-281-4048 to donate or volunteer. Or, view our Facebook event listings and spread the word.

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