The 2024 SVS Foundation’s Vascular Health Step Challenge kicked off Sept. 1 with over 400 registrants committed to walking 60 miles throughout September in honor of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Awareness Month. With over 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body, walking is a common prescription that vascular surgeons give their patients to decrease their risk of PAD or to manage their symptoms.
SVS members and people from across the world have signed up to support the third annual iteration of the challenge. Registrants have come from places as far flung as India, Mexico, Vietnam and Brazil as part of the global commitment to vascular health.
The mission of the SVS Foundation is to optimize the vascular health and well-being of patients and the public through support of research on circulatory disease. Recently, the foundation announced that funds raised from the challenge will support a new Vascular Care for the Underserved (VC4U) grant for SVS and Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) members.
It isn’t too late for walkers who still want to sign up: registration will remain open through the end of September. Donations toward individual walkers, teams and the general campaign will be accepted throughout September as well. Visit vascular.org/Step2024 for more details
