Today is National Wear Red Day

Today is National Wear Red Day.

Heart disease is still the number one killer of women. A woman dies from cardiovascular disease about every 80 seconds.

What’s harder to sit with is why this remains true.

For a long time, women weren’t the center of heart-health research. Our symptoms were labeled “atypical.” Our risks were underestimated. And too many warning signs were dismissed, normalized, or missed entirely.

This is why movements like Go Red for Women exist, not as a moment, but as a correction. A reminder that awareness alone isn’t enough unless it leads to different decisions, better systems, and earlier action.

As a woman, and as part of a female-led company working in healthcare, this isn’t abstract for us. It’s personal.

We see how often care still begins too late. How much happens between appointments that no one is watching? How prevention is talked about far more than it’s actually operationalized.

Wearing red matters because visibility matters. But what matters more is what comes next: listening sooner, believing women, designing care that reflects real lives, and acting before heart disease becomes a crisis instead of a conversation.

So today, wear red, not just to be seen, but to stand for change that lasts beyond the day.