#SaludTues Tweetchat 2/16/16, 1pmET: “WHY Women’s Heart Health Matters!”

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Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for Latina women in the U.S. with nearly 21,000 deaths occurring annually among Latino women

In fact, studies show Latina women are prone to developing heart disease 10 years earlier than non-Hispanic white women!

What can be done to prevent this?

Join our “WHY Women’s Heart Health Matters” #SaludTues Tweetchat on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 12pm CST (1 p.m. eastern) to learn more important facts about heart health. Share your resources, stories, and tips for preventing heart disease in the Latino community. The chat is co-hosted by Salud Today, The Heart Truth, and The Women’s Heart Alliance (a partnership of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital /Weill Cornell Medical Center).

Follow the Tweetchat on Twitter (via @TheHeartTruth @FightLadyKiller  & @SaludToday) to get resources and examples of ways to improve women’s heart health.

We’ll open the floor to your stories and experiences as we explore:

  • Advice on how to bring the message of Women’s Heart Health to the forefront.
  • Ways to overcome disparities in heart disease for Latina women.
  • How involvement in clinical trials can help to improve heart health for women.
  • Stories and resources for promoting heart healthy communities.

Be sure to use the hashtag #SaludTues to follow the conversation on Twitter, share your stories and share resources that can help improve heart health in Latino communities.

Also, don’t miss our #Saludlive broadcast straight from #Periscope. Join the livestream to find out more about the Tweetchat.

#SaludTues is a weekly Tweetchat about Latino health at 12p CST/1p ET every Tuesday and hosted by @SaludToday, the Latino health social media campaign for the team at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. The IHPR is the team behind Salud America! The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network to Prevent Latino Childhood Obesity, Exito! Latino Cancer Research Leadership Training Program, Quitxt and several other research projects!

By The Numbers By The Numbers

25.1

percent

of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage

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