IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 112 
Supporting the goals and ideals of American Heart Month and National 
Wear Red Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 3, 2009 
Mr. LEE of New York submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of American Heart Month 
and National Wear Red Day. 
Whereas heart disease affects adult men and women of every 
age and race in the United States; 
Whereas heart disease continues to be the leading cause of 
death in the United States; 
Whereas an estimated 80,000,000 adult Americans, nearly 
one in every 3, have one or more types of heart disease, 
including high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, 
congestive heart failure, stroke, and congenital heart de-
fects; 
Whereas extensive clinical and statistical studies have identi-
fied major and contributing factors that increase the risk 
of heart disease; 
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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 
(men have greater risk of developing heart disease than 
women), and heredity (children of parents with heart dis-
ease are more likely to develop 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 Americans, some Asian-Ameri-
cans, and Native Americans and other indigenous popu-
lations); 
Whereas these studies have identified the following as major 
risk factors that Americans can modify, treat, or control 
by changing their lifestyle or seeking appropriate medical 
treatment: High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, 
smoking tobacco products and exposure to tobacco 
smoke, physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes mellitus; 
Whereas these studies have identified the following as con-
tributing risk factors that Americans can also take action 
to modify, treat or control by changing their lifestyle or 
seeking appropriate medical treatment: Individual re-
sponse to stress, excessive consumption of alcoholic bev-
erages, use of certain illegal drugs, and hormone replace-
ment therapy; 
Whereas more than 106,000,000 adult Americans have high 
blood pressure; 
Whereas more than 37,000,000 Americans have cholesterol 
levels of 240 mg/dL or higher, the level at which it be-
comes a major risk factor; 
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Whereas an estimated 43,000,000 Americans put themselves 
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 65 percent of 
American adults do not get enough physical activity, and 
more than 39 percent are not physically active at all; 
Whereas 66 percent of adult Americans are overweight or 
obese; 
Whereas 24 million adult Americans have diabetes and 65 
percent of those so afflicted will die of some form of 
heart disease; 
Whereas the American Heart Association projects that in 
2009 1,200,000 Americans will have a first or recurrent 
heart attack and 452,000 of these people will die as a re-
sult; 
Whereas in 2009 approximately 800,000 Americans will suf-
fer a new or recurrent stroke and 160,000 of these peo-
ple will die as a result; 
Whereas advances in medical research have significantly im-
proved our capacity to fight heart disease by providing 
greater knowledge about its causes, innovative diagnostic 
tools to detect the disease, and new and improved treat-
ments that help people survive and recover from this dis-
ease; 
Whereas Congress by Joint Resolution approved on December 
30, 1963 (77 Stat. 843; 36 U.S.C. 101), has requested 
that the President issue an annual proclamation desig-
nating February as ‘‘American Heart Month’’; 
Whereas the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of 
the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart 
Association, and many other organizations celebrate ‘‘Na-
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