The first Friday of February is National Wear Red Day—a day to raise awareness that heart disease is the number one health threat for women.

KSHB talked to Dr. Tracy Stevens, cardiologist and medical director of Saint Luke's Muriel I. Kauffman Women's Heart Center, about how the pandemic is taking a toll on many people's heart health and prevention. 

Watch the full interview below.

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