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National Wear Red Day is a day in February when many people wear red to show their support for the awareness of heart disease.

In the US

It occurs in America on the first Friday in February each year, where people wear red. ''

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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 ...

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National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Designed to warn women of their #1 health threat, ''The Heart Truth'' created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002 to deliver an urgent wakeup call to American women.

In the UK

Wear Red Day is held on the first Friday of every February and organised in the United Kingdom by Yorkshire based charity Children's Heart Surgery Fund to raise awareness of congenital heart disease.

External links

NIH Wear Red Day page

Children's Heart Surgery Fund's Wear Red Day
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