SAN DIEGO - Twelve landmarks around San Diego turned their outside lights red Thursday evening to acknowledge one of the leading causes of deaths among women.
The U. S. Grant, the San Diego County Administration Building, the Hotel Del Coronado, and the Hard Rock Hotel were among the landmarks honoring the “Go Red for Women Day” campaign.
The campaign focuses its message on heart disease, which is the number one cause of death among women in the United States, according to the non-profit organization American Heart Association.
“With me, it was breathing problems and with a lot of women its pain in the jaw,” said heart transplant survivor Dr. Susan Mahler. “It’s a back ache.”
Mahler said there can be other symptoms as well, and that’s why it is important for women to know their hearts.
On Friday, February 3, the AHA is asking women and men to don their red, as a reminder to women to take care of their hearts.
February is known as national heart month.
