Program Seven · Cardiovascular Health, Prevention & Early Action
Know the pattern.Take the next right step.
The goal is to save lives.
Legacy Heart Health Initiative is a cardiovascular health, prevention, and early-action program helping people recognize potentially urgent warning signs, understand the factors that shape cardiovascular health, prepare for care conversations, and find established resources.
If you may be having a heart attack or stroke, contact local emergency services now. This website is not emergency care and cannot determine whether symptoms are safe to watch.Emergency Help
Start here
The next right step depends on where you are.
Begin with the information that fits your question. The public layer is designed to support earlier action without pretending to replace a qualified clinician.
Emergency Help
If you may be having a heart attack or stroke, start here.
ExploreUnderstand Heart Disease
Learn the language behind cardiovascular health and prevention.
ExploreWarning Signs
Know what deserves urgent attention and why time matters.
ExploreKnow the Family Pattern
Organize what your family knows before a care conversation.
ExploreRisk Factors and Prevention
Understand the questions that can support earlier action.
ExploreTesting Conversations
Learn why different tests answer different clinical questions.
ExploreWhy this exists
A family experience, turned into a public-health starting point.
Cardiovascular disease can be silent, family patterns can be missed, and the right next step is not always obvious. This program begins with accessible education and a simple way to organize family history before a clinician conversation.
The first release is deliberately bounded: education, preparation, and established-resource links. Clinical navigation and testing access are future phases that require funding, medical leadership, legal review, and appropriate safeguards.
19.8M
Estimated global CVD deaths in 2022, according to the World Health Organization.
1 in 5
Heart attacks are estimated by CDC to be silent, meaning they may not be recognized as they occur.
The boundary matters
Useful from day one. Honest about what comes later.
What we provide now
- • Emergency-recognition education and official resource links
- • Family-history preparation for a clinician conversation
- • Prevention and testing questions grounded in public sources
- • A user-controlled summary that stays on the user’s device unless they choose to share it
What we do not provide
- • Diagnosis, symptom triage, or medical advice
- • Risk scores, scan interpretation, or test orders
- • A promise that a specific test will prevent an event
- • An Access Fund or formal care-navigation service at launch
Family History Tool
Start with what your family knows.
Capture what you know about relatives, cardiovascular conditions, and approximate ages. The tool creates a plain-text conversation aid in your browser. Nothing is sent to The Legacy Foundation through this form.
This is not a diagnosis or risk assessment. Unknown information is valid information.
For physicians
Help us make the public layer safer.
We are seeking narrowly scoped volunteer content review—not a Medical Director or patient-care role at this stage.
Review the physician invitationFor funders & partners
Fund the safe next phase.
The public layer is the starting asset. Future clinical navigation requires funded medical leadership, legal review, staffing, privacy, insurance, and evaluation.
Review the implementation briefSources & limitations
Start with evidence. Keep the claims precise.
Legacy Heart Health Initiative is a cardiovascular health, prevention, and early-action program in development. Content is not medical advice, and external sources can change. If you may be experiencing an emergency, contact local emergency services rather than using this site.