IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 51 
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Wear Red Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 31, 2007 
Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Wear Red Day. 
Whereas heart disease is the leading cause of death for 
women in the United States; 
Whereas it is estimated that 42.1 million American women 
have 1 or more types of heart disease, including high 
blood pressure, coronary heart disease, congestive heart 
failure, stroke, and congenital heart defects; 
Whereas extensive clinical and statistical studies have identi-
fied major and contributing factors that increase the risk 
of heart disease; 
Whereas these studies have identified the following as major 
risk factors that cannot be changed: age (the risk of de-
veloping heart disease gradually increases as people age; 
advanced age significantly increases the risk); gender 
(women’s risk rises sharply after menopause; each year 
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more women than men have a stroke); and heredity (chil-
dren of parents with heart disease are more likely to de-
velop it themselves; African Americans have more severe 
high blood pressure than Caucasians and therefore are at 
higher risk; the risk is also higher among Latina Ameri-
cans, some Asian Americans, and Native Americans and 
other indigenous populations); 
Whereas these studies have identified the following as major 
risk factors that American women can modify, treat or 
control by changing their lifestyle or seeking appropriate 
medical treatment: high blood pressure, high blood cho-
lesterol, smoking tobacco products and exposure to to-
bacco smoke, physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes 
mellitus; 
Whereas these studies have identified the following as con-
tributing risk factors that American women can also take 
action to modify, treat or control by changing their life-
style or seeking appropriate medical treatment: individual 
response to stress, excessive consumption of alcoholic bev-
erages, use of certain illegal drugs, and hormone replace-
ment therapy; 
Whereas more than 39 million American women have high 
blood pressure; 
Whereas more than 19.7 million America women have choles-
terol levels in excess of 240 mg/dL, the level at which it 
becomes a major risk factor; 
Whereas an estimated 21 million American women put them-
selves at risk for heart disease every day by smoking 
cigarettes; 
Whereas data released by the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention shows that more than 60 percent of 
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American adults do not get enough physical activity, and 
more than 25 percent are not physically active at all; 
Whereas 62 percent of Americans women are overweight or 
obese; 
Whereas it is estimated that more than 10 million American 
women have diabetes and that 65 percent of those so af-
flicted will die of some form of heart disease; 
Whereas the American Heart Association projects that in 
2007 485,000 American women will have a first or recur-
rent heart attack and that 45 percent of these women 
will die as a result; 
Whereas 35 percent of American women who suffer a heart 
attack in 2007 will suffer a recurrent attack within 6 
years; 
Whereas 38 percent of American women who suffer their first 
heart attack in 2007 will die within 1 year; 
Whereas in 2007 approximately 374,000 American women 
will suffer a new or recurrent stroke and 92,000 of these 
women will die as a result; 
Whereas advances in medical research have significantly im-
proved the capacity of American women to fight heart 
disease by providing greater knowledge about its causes, 
innovative diagnostic tools to detect the disease, and new 
and improved treatments that help people survive and re-
cover from this disease; 
Whereas National Wear Red Day is sponsored by the Na-
tional Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the Na-
tional Institutes of Health of the Department of Health 
and Human Services, as an annual event held on the first 
Friday in February to increase awareness among Amer-
ican women about their risk of heart disease; and 
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Whereas National Wear Red Day 2007 will be observed on 
Friday, February 2, 2007: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That the Congress— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of National 
Wear Red Day; 
(2) encourages Americans nationwide to take 
women’s health to heart by wearing red on National 
Wear Red Day 2007 to show their support for wom-
en’s heart disease awareness; 
(3) encourages Americans nationwide to sup-
port The Heart Truth, the national awareness cam-
paign designed by the National Heart, Lung, and 
Blood Institute to alert women about their risk for 
heart disease; 
(4) encourages all American women, especially 
women ages 40 to 60, the time when a woman’s risk 
of heart disease starts to rise, to embrace the goals 
of The Heart Truth campaign and take action to 
modify, prevent, and control their risk factors for 
heart disease; 
(5) encourages all Americans, men and women 
alike, to take to heart the 4 simple healthy life, 
healthy heart goals identified by the HealthierUS 
Initiative of the Department of Health and Human 
Services: exercise regularly and maintain a healthy 
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weight; develop good eating habits; avoid tobacco 
products, drugs and excessive alcohol; and have reg-
ular medical checkups to take advantage of 
screenings that can detect heart-disease related 
problems early; 
(6) recognizes and reaffirms our Nation’s com-
mitment to fighting heart disease by promoting 
awareness about its causes, risks, and prevention 
and by promoting new education programs, sup-
porting research, and expanding access to medical 
treatment; and 
(7) recognizes all Americans battling heart dis-
ease, expresses gratitude to their family members 
and friends who are a source of love and encourage-
ment as they combat this disease, and salutes the 
health care professionals and medical researchers 
who provide assistance to those so afflicted and con-
tinue to work to find cures and improve treatments. 
Æ 
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