National Women's Blood Pressure Awareness Week | womenshealth.gov

National Women's Blood Pressure Awareness Week | womenshealth.gov

National Women’s Blood Pressure Awareness Week (NWBPAW) is a weeklong observance lead by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health. The observance highlights the importance of blood pressure control and monitoring among all women, with an emphasis on women ages 18-44. NWBPAW encourages women to take control of their health by sharing everyday actions they can take to maintain a healthy blood pressure and improve their overall heart health.

To help promote NWBPAW, the Office on Women’s Health has created a toolkit to provide resources, fact sheets and other messaging. The toolkit is available on the OWH website  at https://www.womenshealth.gov/nwbpaw

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Daily Themes

Sunday: Heart Disease in Women

Focus: Basic overview on the rates of high blood pressure in women with an emphasis on younger women and women of reproductive age.

Monday: High Blood Pressure in Women

Focus: How blood pressure affects health throughout the life course, what the numbers mean and why it is important to focus on high blood pressure.

Tuesday: Understanding and Controlling Hypertension

Focus: The basics of blood pressure such as how blood pressure affects your health and what factors put women at a higher risk for high blood pressure. Messages will also discuss how it can be controlled. 

Wednesday: Monitor Your Blood Pressure Daily

Focus: Ways to monitor blood pressure correctly and develop a heart health plan with health care team and how to monitor blood pressure at home. 

Thursday: Develop Healthy Heart Habits to Lower Blood Pressure

Focus: Steps that women can take to lower high blood pressure, keeping it under control such as identifying personal “triggers” that can affect blood pressure and maintaining a heart-healthy lifestyle. 

Friday: Community Resources & Success Stories

Focus: Sharing best practices and model community-level interventions that are being utilized to help patients manage and reduce hypertension. Messages will also share success stories of women living with heart disease and high blood pressure, and will reinforce the importance of healthy habits for maintaining a health blood pressure.

Saturday: Sharing What Works: Personal Stories

Messages will encourage women to share what blood pressure control techniques they practice and what’s working for them. Messages will also re-emphasize earlier messages from the week, particularly around self-monitoring.