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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Stewart

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/1/08

HM 7

SHORT TITLE

“Wear Red Day"

SB

ANALYST Shaya

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Memorial 7 recognizes the importance of the ongoing fight against heart disease and

stroke, Friday, February 1, 2008, be proclaimed "Wear Red Day" at the New Mexico House of

Representatives and that all New Mexicans be encouraged to show their support for women and

the fight against heart disease by commemorating this day by wearing the color red.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

•

Diseases of the heart are the nation's leading cause of death and stroke is the nation's

third-leading cause of death; and

•

Cardiovascular diseases claim the lives of over four hundred sixty thousand American

women each year, which is an estimated one death per minute; and

•

Each year, fifty-three percent of all cardiovascular-disease deaths occur in women as

compared to forty-seven percent in men; and

•

Each year, approximately thirty-two thousand eight hundred more women than men die

from a stroke; and

•

The estimated costs, both direct and indirect, of cardiovascular diseases and stroke in

New Mexico in 2008 are nine hundred million dollars ($900,000,000); and

•

More women die of cardiovascular disease than the next five leading causes of death

combined, including all cancers; and

•

Only twenty-one percent of women consider cardiovascular disease their greatest health

risk; and

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February is designated as "American Heart Month"; and

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"Go red for women" is the American heart association's national call to increase

awareness about heart disease, the leading cause of death for women, and to inspire

women to take charge of their heart health; and

•

All women should learn their own personal risk for heart disease, using tools such as the

American heart association's "go red for women" heart checkup and by talking to their

health care providers;

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