Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

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Your Dollars at Work

Why Your Support Matters

Since you’re reading this right now, it’s clear that you want to help. We need people like you. When you donate or raise funds for the Ride for Heart, you help ensure that more survivors come home to the people they love. Thanks to the money you raise and donate, we’re able to fund research that leads to medical breakthroughs, helping survivors recover faster and return home to their families sooner.

How the Heart and Stroke Foundation Helps Create More Survivors

Last year, we invested nearly $34 million in to life-saving heart disease and stroke research, supporting almost 1,000 researchers across Canada.

Through our instructor network, the Heart and Stroke Foundation trained about 450,000 Canadians in CPR, giving them the skills to save a life.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation helped create 165,000 survivors of heart disease and stroke in the last year alone.

Your Support Makes Things Happen

Survivor Story — Jen Bogart

Waking with a pounding headache, blurry vision and an unsteady walk, Jen tried calling in sick but couldn’t find the words. She emailed instead and went back to bed. But things got worse. Much worse. Unknowingly, Jen suffered a stroke. When her friends got her to the hospital, she couldn’t walk and spoke only three words. Thankfully, doctors saved her life; but stroke changed it. With speech and occupational therapy, Jen now enjoys life at a slower pace. She reads, solves puzzles, cooks, rests, does yoga and goes for walks. Stroke didn’t stop this dynamo — and she’s still making progress.

Joe’s journey back from stroke

In mere minutes, Joe went from celebrating his wedding anniversary to being put in an ambulance on a stretcher. But it took time, hard work and support to undo the physical, mental and emotional effects of his stroke.

Making heart health child’s play

Dr. Heather McKay is reshaping a community ─ and the heart health of its children ─ by making it easier for kids to be physically active.

Giving women a second chance

Dr. Karin Humphries is studying why women lag behind men in recovering after a heart attack and how we can close that gender gap.

Stopping cardiac arrest before it happens

Dr. Andrew Krahn is working to save lives by uncovering the DNA sequences behind LQTS, a rare condition that puts healthy people at risk of sudden death.

Chasing the next breakthrough

Dr. Edward Pryzdial is studying a new clot-busting drug with the potential to give stroke patients safer, faster and more effective treatment.

Using robotics for stroke recovery

Dr. Sean Dukelow is developing innovative ways to assess stroke damage, remap the brain and restore function, giving new hope to survivors.

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