More than 9,000 walkers from all over Los Angeles came together to help in the fight against heart disease and stroke at the American Heart Association’s 19th Annual Start! Los Angeles Heart Walk at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, Oct. 3. The walkers included the Provisor family, headed by husband and wife team, Bruce and Arlene, and their two-year-old daughter Annabelle. Annabelle was born with a heart defect called transposition of the arteries. She was only one month old when she had open-heart surgery to fix her heart. Earlier this year, in February, the toddler had a second corrective surgery. The Provisor family, accompanied this year by Bruce’s mother, Pantip, and nephew, Kyree, has been participating in the Heart Walk since 2007 in honor of their little survivor, Annabelle.
Heart disease and stroke are the No. 1 and No. 3 killers in America. Approximately 36,000 babies are born with a congenital heart defect each year. Despite the American Heart Association’s track record in funding groundbreaking medical research that has saved countless lives, each year hundreds of deserving projects go unfunded because there was not enough money to spend on them. The Start! Heart Walk is an opportunity for the community to help raise awareness of heart disease and stroke and raise funds to support cardiovascular research. Funds raised at the Heart Walk go to research which will help us better understand heart disease and stroke and find more ways to treat and prevent them.
The Start! Los Angeles Heart Walk is sponsored nationally by Subway Restaurants, Healthy Choice and AstraZeneca and locally by Union Bank, the Health Net Foundation and Providence Health System.
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