Join us for National Women's Blood Pressure Awareness Week!
The HHS Office on Women's Health (OWH) is excited to host National Women's Blood Pressure Awareness Week (NWBPAW) October 17-23, 2021! Throughout the week, we emphasize the importance of blood pressure control and empower women to take simple, everyday actions to improve their heart health.
The theme of NWBPAW 2021 – Healthy Pressure, Healthy You – highlights the connection between blood pressure and overall health and the importance of women maintaining healthy blood pressure levels at every age and stage of their lives. You can get more about NWBPAW at https://www.womenshealth.gov/nwbpaw.
Throughout the week, OWH will share messages to promote a daily theme around high blood pressure or hypertension awareness. The daily themes are highlighted below.
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Sunday, October 17: Blood Pressure Basics - What You Need to Know
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Monday, October 18: Understanding Your Blood Pressure Patterns & Risk Factors
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Tuesday, October 19: Getting and Keeping Your Blood Pressure Under Control
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Wednesday, October 20: Healthy Habits to Maintain Good Blood Pressure
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Thursday, October 21: Blood Pressure and Pregnancy
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Friday, October 22: Blood Pressure Resources in Your Community
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Saturday, October 23: Success Stories and Recap of the Week
 How Can You Celebrate NWBPAW?
- Use our NWBPAW Toolkit to promote the week.
- Follow #NWBPAW and share OWH messages on social media.
- Create and share your own NWBPAW messages. Be sure to use #NWBPAW.
- Join our new Self-Measured Blood Pressure Partnership Program! Get more information here: https://go.usa.gov/xM6Pt
Become a #NWBPAW Partner!
To become a partner, email your organization’s logo (at least 900 pixels wide) to Womenshealth@hhs.gov. We will add it to our partner web page and send you a link to our NWBPAW toolkit with sample messages and graphics to share during the week.
We thank you for lending your organization’s powerful voice to help us improve the health of all women and girls. It is through strong partnerships with organizations like yours that we can enrich the lives of so many.
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