{"id":21024,"date":"2017-02-22T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=21024"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:54:59","slug":"national-valve-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2017\/02\/22\/national-valve-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day Starts Now!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that only 60% of people have heard of heart valve disease?<\/p>\n<p>At the same time&#8230; \u00a0Over 12% of the population, aged 75 years or older, have heart valve\u00a0diseases including aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. YIKES!!!<\/p>\n<p>It is for this and SOOOOOOOOOO\u00a0many other reasons that I am excited\u00a0to share\u00a0that today, February 22, 2017, is the first-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvediseaseday.org\">National Heart Valve Awareness Day<\/a>!!!\u00a0Watch this video to learn more!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CD3HsT-bWUI\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->According to the Alliance for Aging Research, the\u00a0organizer\u00a0of this wonderful initiative, &#8220;The goal of the National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day\u00a0is to increase recognition of the specific risks and symptoms of heart valve disease, improve detection and treatment, and ultimately save lives. While heart valve disease can be can be disabling and deadly, available treatments can save lives, making education and awareness particularly important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvediseaseday.org\">ValveDiseaseDay.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several ways that you can participate in the day!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join the Twitter Chat at 4pm EST. Simply click <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ValveDiseaseDay&amp;src=typd\">#ValveDiseaseDay<\/a> to get into the conversation. The Twitter handle of @ValveDiseaseDay will be used for the chat.<\/li>\n<li>Come on over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heartvalvesurgery\/\">HVS Facebook page<\/a> where I&#8217;ll be hanging out and posting throughout the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many thanks to all the participants who have come together on this special day to raise awareness to a disease that is often referred to as a &#8220;Silent Killer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Together, let&#8217;s unite, educate and expand the heart valve community!!!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvediseaseday.org\">Learn more at ValveDiseaseDay.org!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}