Message on American Heart Month

This American Heart Month, my Administration renews our pledge to guard the American coronary heart and to maintain the American folks secure, sturdy, wholesome, and free.

Sadly, one of many gravest threats to American lives right this moment is the lethal affliction of coronary heart illness, which imposes hardship on untold numbers of households. For this purpose, as President, I urge each American to take cost of their well being to lower the potential for a coronary heart assault or stroke. Genetics play a task in heart problems, however implementing focused life-style decisions and preventative measures—equivalent to getting common check-ups, exercising, controlling blood strain and ldl cholesterol, and sustaining a balanced weight loss program—can enhance the percentages in opposition to sickness, incapacity, and dying for any particular person no matter household historical past.

Under my management, the Make America Healthy Again Commission is working tirelessly to enhance the standard of life and longevity for each American and to make sure our healthcare system addresses the basis causes of persistent illness. My Administration has secured historic agreements with pharmaceutical producers to considerably decrease the value Americans pay for a few of the world’s hottest medication that may assist with coronary heart illness, weight problems, and different situations, and launched TrumpRx.gov to make sure American sufferers can entry these decrease costs. We have additionally launched the Great Healthcare Plan, constructing on our historic efforts to supply Most-Favored-Nation value aid for prescribed drugs. I urge Congress to enact this complete plan, which is able to considerably profit hundreds of thousands of Americans.

This American Heart Month, I encourage each citizen to make life-style adjustments and take preventative measures to enhance the percentages in opposition to sickness, incapacity, and dying. We pray for the households devastated by loss, we honor the resilience of the survivors of coronary heart illness, and above all, we rededicate ourselves to working towards a future the place coronary heart illness doesn’t deprive the American folks of lengthy, productive, and fulfilling lives.