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The Heart Truth: A National Awareness Campaign For Women About Heart Disease
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 Online Toolkit

The Heart Truth Online Toolkit

Our Online Toolkit contains all of the information, ideas, and materials you will need to plan your own Heart Truth event.

Additional Resources

Make a difference in women's lives by spreading The Heart Truth in your community. The campaign materials are easy to use in a wide variety of settings, whether you represent a health care facility, business, non-profit organization, government agency, or community group. In fact, anyone who wants to make a difference in women's lives can help spread The Heart Truth.

Also, be sure to check out The Heart Truth for Women: A Speaker's Kit, which has an easy-to-use speaker's guide and video—everything you need to make a compelling presentation to your community group. Act now to protect your heart health—and help others protect theirs.

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Handbook

  • The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women

    This updated edition of the popular The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women includes the most recent information on women's heart disease and practical suggestions for how to reduce the risk of developing it.

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Red Dress Pin

  • The Red Dress Pin

    As the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness, the pin serves as a red alert for women.

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Brochure

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Speaker's Kit

  • The Heart Truth for Women: A Speaker's Kit

    The Heart Truth for Women: A Speaker's Kit is easy to use and supplies all you need to hold a 1-hour session on heart disease—instructions, overheads, handouts, responses to likely questions, and a compelling video, which features women telling their own stories about how heart disease changed their lives.

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Fact Sheets

These easy-to-read fact sheets give essential information women need to find out their risk of heart disease and take action to reduce it. Read them for your own information, or order multiple copies to share with women in your community and workplace.

  • The Heart Truth for Women: An Action Plan

    Gives women the information they need to talk with their doctor about their risk of heart disease and provides an action plan.
  • When Delicious Meets Nutritious: Recipes for Heart Health

    Features 10 mouth-watering recipes and lists practical tips and substitutions for creating heart-healthy versions of your favorite recipes.
  • The Heart Truth for Women: If You Have Heart Disease

    Explains what heart disease is, reviews screening tests, describes treatment options, lists heart attack warning signs and gives you the key steps for developing your own plan.
  • The Heart Truth: Women and Heart Disease

    Provides an overview of heart disease among women including an explanation of risk factors and women's heart disease statistics.
  • The Red Dress: the National Symbol for Women and Heart Disease Awareness

    Provides background information about The Heart Truth's Red Dress symbol.
  • The Heart Truth for African-American Women: An Action Plan

    Provides The Heart Truth facts and figures specific to African-American women.
  • The Heart Truth for Women: It's Ageless

    Provides information about how heart disease and its risk factors can affect women of every age.

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Poster

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Infographs

  • Questions To Ask Your Doctor/What's Your Risk?

    A list of questions to ask your doctor and a quiz to find out your risk of heart attack.
  • Leading Causes of Death for American Women (2000)

    Two graphs illustrating the five leading causes of death among American women.

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Print PSAs

Print PSAs featuring various images of the Red Dress that can be used in magazines, newsletters, and newspapers. Downloadable photos and graphics, including the print PSAs, are available in the Image Library.

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The Heart Truth Printer-ready CD-ROM

This Printer-ready CD-ROM contains high-resolution files of The Heart Truth campaign materials that you can take to a professional printer. Materials include: handbook, brochures, fact sheets, public service announcements, posters, infographs, photography, and The Heart Truth logo.
    • To order The Heart Truth Printer-ready CD-ROM, e-mail the NHLBI Health Information Network at nhlbiinfo@nhlbi.nih.gov or call 301-592-8573 (9 a.m.-5 p.m., EST, M-F).

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Radio PSAs

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Television PSAs

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Airport Diorama

  • Airport Diorama

    The Red Dress Collection airport diorama can be found in airports across the country.

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Campaign Showcase Presentation

  • Campaign Showcase Presentation

    This PowerPoint presentation and the accompanying speaker's notes make it easy to deliver a presentation about The Heart Truth campaign. The presentation covers campaign objectives, core messages, strategic framework, and community resources. Use it to highlight your organization's partnership with The Heart Truth and get other groups involved.
    • View Online (download menu/text-only version available)

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Cookbook

  • Keep the Beat Heart Healthy Recipes

    What's good for your heart is great for your taste buds. As the recipes in this special collection will show, you don't have to lose flavor to gain health.

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