Go Red for Women Luncheon
/ Photo: Maren Guse
LIVERPOOL -- Today in central New York morning anchor Lisa Spitz served as one of the emcees at Thursday's ninth annual American Heart Association's Go Red for Women luncheon.
More than 400 people were at the event at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool, which raised more than $190,000 to prevent heart disease and stroke.
The funds raised will be used to fight disability and death caused by cardiovascular diseases and stroke through research, training, advocacy and community education.
One in three women die of heart disease, compared to one in thirty women that die from breast cancer.
90 percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease and 80 percent of cardiac events in women can be prevented by eating right, exercising and not smoking.
More information isi available on the American Heart Association's website.
