{"id":2641,"date":"2018-03-01T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/u-s-house-of-representatives-introduces-cvd-resolution\/"},"modified":"2021-04-30T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:13:44","slug":"u-s-house-of-representatives-introduces-cvd-resolution","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/u-s-house-of-representatives-introduces-cvd-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House of Representatives introduces CVD Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"post-4501 media-4501\" class=\"align-none center-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/US_HoR.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On 27 February, following vigorous advocacy efforts from our members and partners the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Heart Association<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, New Jersey Representative Chris Smith introduced a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-resolution\/752\/text\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">resolution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing the rise of cardiovascular disease as the \u201cworld\u2019s leading cause of preventable death and disability and as the global public health crisis of our generation\u201d. The resolution also calls for the official recognition of February 2018 as &#8220;American Heart Month&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a key milestone in global CVD and NCD advocacy efforts, and a positive step in the lead up to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/ncds\/governance\/third-un-meeting\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Third United Nations High-level Meeting on NCDs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The text of the proposed resolution is available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/115HR752_IH_full.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 February, following vigorous advocacy efforts from our members and partners the American Heart Association, New Jersey Representative Chris Smith introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing the rise of cardiovascular disease as the \u201cworld\u2019s leading cause of preventable death and disability and as the global public health crisis of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2642,"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"event":[],"project-campaign":[],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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