{"id":272815,"date":"2026-04-17T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272815\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:46:39","slug":"go-red-for-women-luncheon-held-in-clovis-to-raise-awareness-for-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272815\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Red for Women Luncheon held in Clovis to raise awareness for heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The room went red at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District in an effort to raise awareness for the number one killer of women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The American Heart Association held the Go Red for Women Luncheon, along with a health and wellness expo, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Health experts and advocates dressed in red for the fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, accounting for almost half of all reported deaths in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Money raised helps foster life-saving partnerships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We&#8217;re working with local clinics and physician offices to educate people out in the community who have a history of high blood pressure, ensuring they have a blood pressure kit at home and they know how to check their blood pressure,&#8221; says Cynthia Cervantes with Anthem Blue Cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The featured guest was Alexandria Cordova, a 21-year-old survivor of congenital heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The room went red at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District in an effort to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[118306,10009,112,114,113,118305,44413,21765,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-272815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-118306","9":"tag-clovis","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-go-red-for-women","14":"tag-heart-disease","15":"tag-luncheon","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}