World Heart Day will be celebrated on 29 September 2011

World Heart Day  will be celebrated on 29 September 2011

World Heart Day was created in 2000 to inform people around the globe that heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading cause of death, claiming 17.1 million lives each year.

Together with its members, the World Heart Federation spreads the news that at least 80% of premature deaths from heart disease and stroke could be avoided if the main risk factors, tobacco, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, are controlled.

World Heart Day will take place on 29 September each year.

Source: http://www.world-heart-federation.org/what-we-do/awareness/world-heart-day/about-world-heart-day/