{"id":7211,"date":"2020-02-12T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2020-02-12T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:30:23","slug":"its-all-about-matters-of-the-heart-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/its-all-about-matters-of-the-heart-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All About Matters of the Heart This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When it comes to matters of the heart in the month of February, we\u2019re shifting the focus from candies and flowers to congenital heart defects.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">February is Heart Month, a time to bring attention to the importance of cardiovascular health, and what we can to reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Children\u2019s hospitals across Canada, and leading heart health authorities, are stressing the importance of heart health awareness this month.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Why is this relevant to children\u2019s health? According to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcchf.ca\/heart\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">BC Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, one in every 100 babies are born with a heart defect.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This year\u2019s BCCHF Children\u2019s Miracle Network Champion\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Blayke<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is one of those 100 babies. She was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">diagnosed with a heart defect known as coarctation of the aorta, a narrowing of the body\u2019s largest artery.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Blayke<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0underwent heart surgery, which was a success. And days later, her family was able to see her loving personality shine.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For the sake of children suffering from congenital heart defects, consider the impact you can make on the future of heart health research. Because children are at the\u00a0<\/span><strong>heart<\/strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of what we do.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to matters of the heart in the month of February, we\u2019re shifting the focus from candies and flowers to congenital heart defects.\u00a0\u00a0 February is Heart Month, a time to bring attention to the importance of cardiovascular health, and what we can to reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease.\u00a0 Children\u2019s hospitals across Canada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bc-childrens-hospital-foundation","category-cchf-news","category-health"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childrenshospitals.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}