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Show Heart Research Continues Against Complex Problems It is difficult to relate in personal terms to numbers in the millions. On the surface, statistics are cold and lifeless. But when you consider that more than a million Deo- pie in the United States will die each year as a result of heart and blood vessel diseases, the figures fi-gures holds meaning to your life and to the lives of those you love. The problem of heart disease has reached epidemic epi-demic proportions. And the end is not in sight. But this does not mean we are faced with a hopeless hope-less future. Much is being be-ing done to reverse the trend. The American Heart Association, which is dedicated de-dicated to the reduction in premature death and disability due to heart disease, is working in many ways to attain that goal. It is doing so through education, through screening pro- jects (Grand County Blood Pressure Clinic I held last week is an ex-I ex-I ample of this. 310 peo- ple went through the clin-. clin-. ic, 1 a minute) to bring I people with high blood pressure and- heart ab- normalities into preven-I preven-I tion and treatment pro-i pro-i grams. And it is devoting ' millions of dollars to I heart research, the hope . of the future. Research costs money, a lot of 1 money. That is why it is ' important for you tosup-I tosup-I port the Heart Fund I drive, now in progress. I Here are some of the I things heart research has already made possible: new drugs and diet regimens regi-mens to keep blood pressure pres-sure under control; the development of the heart-I heart-I lung machine to make ' open heart surgery pos-I pos-I sible (many children in , Grand County have used I a heart-lung machine), I artificial heart valves to replace human heart val- ves that can no longer do I their job; many surgical ' technicques to make pos-I pos-I sible operations once un-l un-l heard of. I Research is the solid I foundation fin which the American Heart Associ- ation is built. Since 1949. I it has allocated almost a I quarter of a billion dol-I dol-I lars to research. As it begins its second quarter quar-ter of service, the Am-l Am-l erican Heart Association ' will place increasing emphasis em-phasis on prevention, i Heart Sunday this year I is March 3 although wor- kers have already start- ed in Grand County going door to door. Beta Eta chapter of I'.SA Sorority ' is collecting in Ward 1, the northwest part of town, Barbara Hawks is in charge of block workers work-ers in Ward 3, theSoulh-east theSoulh-east School area and I.e-Anna I.e-Anna Warcham is in charge of Ward l from the cemetery to the county coun-ty line. An area captain is still needed for Ward 2, if any one can help in this area please call Mrs. Winfield at 259-6675. 259-6675. Business letters have been sent out to some of the outlying areas and the Honor Society So-ciety of the llij;h School will be collecting downtown down-town business area the first 2 weeks in March. All business letters and news articles have been typed by Mrs. Donoghue's high .school typing' students. |
