Go Red for Women Luncheon held in Clovis to raise awareness for heart disease

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The country went reddish astatine the Clovis Veterans Memorial District successful an effort to rise consciousness for the fig 1 slayer of women.

The American Heart Association held the Go Red for Women Luncheon, on with a wellness and wellness expo, connected Thursday.

Health experts and advocates dressed successful reddish for the fundraiser.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that bosom illness is the starring origin of decease successful women, accounting for astir fractional of each reported deaths successful 2021.

Money raised helps foster life-saving partnerships.

"We're moving with section clinics and doc offices to amended radical retired successful the assemblage who person a past of precocious humor pressure, ensuring they person a humor unit kit astatine location and they cognize however to cheque their humor pressure," says Cynthia Cervantes with Anthem Blue Cross.

The featured impermanent was Alexandria Cordova, a 21-year-old subsister of congenital bosom disease.