The annual pace of Americans dying from cardiovascular-related causes accelerated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic to the worst it has been since 2015, according to final figures gathered this month by the American Heart Association.
The Horizon Foundation named Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Dr. Yevette Rooks and Lanlan Xu to its board of directors. Howard County resident Commodore-Mensah is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, serving in the School of Nursing; The Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research; the Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and .
Every first Friday in February go red for women day is amplified across the nation. It’s a campaign organized by the American Heart Association that increases awareness about heart disease in women.