Information about Women's Heart Health and why IMPACT chose the AHA this year:
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), over 60 million women (44%) in the United States are living with some form of heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the US and can affect women at any age. In 2021, it was responsible for the deaths of 310,661 women - or about 1 in every 5 female deaths. Only about half (56%) of US women recognize that heart disease is their number 1 cause of death.
This year, IMPACT and Chubb are spotlighting women's heart health for our Annual 5K event. We have chosen to support organizations that provide education and support around heart health and heart disease awareness. You can use this page to make a donation to our US Charity, the American Heart Association. Participants in Canada and Bermuda have separate links, provided by your local offices.
Please consider making a donation, and don't forget to submit your information to you company's matching program.
About the American Heart Association:
Before the American Heart Association existed, people with heart disease were thought to be doomed to complete bed rest — or destined to imminent death. But a handful of pioneering physicians and social workers believed it didn’t have to be that way. They conducted studies to learn more about heart disease, America’s No. 1 killer. Then, on June 10, 1924, they met in Chicago to form the American Heart Association — believing that scientific research could lead the way to better treatment, prevention and ultimately a cure. The early American Heart Association enlisted help from hundreds, then thousands, of physicians and scientists.
“We were living in a time of almost unbelievable ignorance about heart disease,” said Paul Dudley White, one of six cardiologists who founded the organization.
In 1948, the association reorganized, transforming from a professional scientific society to a nationwide voluntary health organization composed of science and lay volunteers and supported by professional staff.
Since then, the AHA has grown rapidly in size and influence — nationally and internationally — into an organization of more than 35 million volunteers and supporters dedicated to improving heart health and reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
