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Women THE POWER OF
With Partnership

Heart

Women’s Healthy Heart Week was established by Women With Heart (WWH), a volunteer support organization
of Morehouse School of Medicine dedicated to raising student scholarship funds, promoting healthy lifestyles,
and increasing community awareness about heart health and cardiovascular disease. Established in 2009 by
former First Lady Eilene Maupin, WWH helps to advance the mission of MSM to improve the health and well-being
of individuals and communities with an emphasis on underserved populations throughout Greater Atlanta and
the state of Georgia. The Women With Heart program has awarded $1.25 million in scholarship support over the
years to more than 120 MSM students.

• Heart disease is the leading cause of death
for most racial and ethnic groups in the
United States.

• One person dies every 34 seconds in the
United States from cardiovascular disease.

• Heart disease is the leading cause of death
for women in the United States, killing
314,186 women in 2020—or about 1 in
every 5 female deaths.

• Heart disease is the leading cause of death
for men in the United States, killing 382,776
men in 2020—which is about 1 in every 4
male deaths.

• Heart disease cost the United States about
$229 billion each year from 2017 to 2018.
This includes the cost of health care
services, medicines, and lost productivity
due to death.

• Almost 50% of Americans have at least 1
of 3 key risk factors for heart disease: high
blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, or
smoking.

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