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The public are being urged to don their walking shoes and take part in a walk being organised by the Irish Heart Foundation and GMIT Students’ Union to promote World Heart Day tomorrow (Thursday).

The Irish Heart Foundation will hold a free public talk called ‘Heart Health – What Women Need to Know’ at the Salthill Hotel on Wednesday September 22.

A Women’s Heart Health Awareness Day will take place in Kilkenny from 10am all day on Thursday September 16 to support the Irish Heart Foundation’s “Red Alert – Irish Heart Month”.

The Irish Heart Foundation has urged women to reduce their stroke risk by maintaining a healthy weight, after US research found that stroke rates have tripled among those aged from late thirties to early fifties.

The stroke team from Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe is playing a leading role in a national awareness campaign launched by the Irish Heart Foundation to reduce death and disability from stroke - Ireland’s third biggest killer disease.

A local support group is heading up an awareness campaign in Galway aimed at reducing death and disability from stroke, Ireland’s third biggest killer disease.

Just under 200 people died from cardiovascular diseases in Westmeath last year according to  Professor Alice Stanton, chair of the Irish Heart Foundation’s Council on Blood Pressure.

The Irish Heart Foundation is urging women all around the country to run or walk 10,000 metres during the Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin on June 1 to remember 10,000 lives lost to cardiovascular disease.

Valentine’s Day lovers have another reason to celebrate this year, as findings show that being in love and being loved helps to keep us healthy and are particularly good for our hearts.

The Irish Heart Foundation is calling for as many people as possible to join Ireland’s Big Walk on World Heart Day on September 27.