Recognizing June 10, 2024 as American Heart Association Centennial Celebration Day in the City of Philadelphia.

Recognizing June 10, 2024 as American Heart Association Centennial Celebration Day in the City of Philadelphia. WHEREAS, The American Heart Association was established in June 1924 and has 100 years of milestones in the prevention and treatment of heart disease; and WHEREAS, Since the American Heart Association’s founding in 1924, deaths from cardiovascular disease have been cut in half; and WHEREAS, The Association’s Scientific Sessions, held annually since 1925 except when suspended due to World War II, has become the largest annual cardiovascular meeting in the United States and a leading international destination for the cardiovascular health community; and WHEREAS, In 1947, the American Heart Association launched its first public education heart fund campaign in celebration of National Heart Week, and in 1948 the Association reorganized, becoming a national voluntary health agency; and WHEREAS, In 1948, the American Heart Association awarded its first research grant, which has grown to an organizational investment exceeding $5.7 billion in cardiovascular medical research, making the American Heart Association the leading nonprofit funding heart and stroke research - second only to the U.S. government - and funded 15 Nobel Prize winners, including 10 whose Association-funded work led to the Nobel Prize; and WHEREAS, In 1956, Dr. Ancel Keys, with American Heart Association support, first linked dietary fat with cholesterol, and this discovery spurred the Association to ass…