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WomenHeart was created in 1999, after these three women connected in 1998. They came to know of each other when they were interviewed separately for an article about heart attacks and women for the first issue of More Magazine. They made their own tiny support group and reached out to tens of thousands of women who were facing the same obstacles that they had endured. Out of this grew their national organization for patient advocacy focusing only on women and heart disease.

Nancy Loving became the leader as well as co-founder and executive director and brought the tiny support group of WomenHeart to a large organization that can speak of many accomplishments. Its growth has come about because of the commitment of the Board of Directors as well as the Scientific Advisory Council, corporate supporters and volunteers. These people spend many hours getting the word out about women’s heart health. In its first 10 years of activity, this organization has:

• Expanded its membership to several thousands of women who are currently living with and/or at-risk for heart disease. This includes their family members, friends, health care professionals.

• Created the only national network support groups for female heart disease patients.

• Began a support community online so that women across the country could connect as well as have a support group of other women in WomenHeart.

• Served as community educators to train more than four hundred survivors of heart disease.

These are just a few of the many goals that this special organization has reached. They hope to have an even more successful outreach during the next ten years. Their main goal is to reach even more women of heart disease, offering education, hope, and support. They also want to insure that they will have prevention information as well as early detection, proper diagnosis and treatment. For more information about this great network of women heart attack survivors visit the website at: http://www.womenheart.org/aboutUs/about.cfm