Will Teens Go Red? Low Cardiovascular Disease Awareness Among Young Women.

ABSTRACT: Background The American Heart Association Go Red for Women campaign has improved awareness of cardiovascular disease ( CVD ) among adult women aged 25 years and older. Little is known about awareness among younger women. Methods and Results We assessed awareness of CVD and prevention efforts among 331 young women aged 15 to 24 years using the American Heart Association National Women's Health Study survey. We compared responses from this cohort to the 2012 American Heart Association online survey of 1227 women aged 25 years and older. Only 33 (10.0%) young women correctly identified CVD as the leading cause of death in women. This was significantly lower than awareness among all adult women in 2012 (785 [64.0%]) and among women aged 25 to 34 years (90 of 168 [53.6%]) ( P<0.01 for both). Ma

SUBMITTER: Gooding HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6475073 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature