Thankful For Our Donor Support!

LetsTalkPPCM loves partnering with other organizations, and businesses who are willing to sponsor, and those who can donate diapers, baby wipes, strollers, car seats, children's books, gift cards, baby and kids size clothing, or shoes, and safe cleaning supplies to assist a newly diagnosed PPCM heart momma's.

Community sponsors are the primary source of funding for our annual events and will help ensure its success. You can provide support in the following ways:

• Be a Co-Sponsor or Event Supporter through a monetary donation. Your company logo will be placed on materials to promote the event.
• Donate 100 Chairs, 100 Tables, 100 Blood Pressure Monitors, 100 Weigh Scales, 100 Daily Diet Charts, and 100 Water Bottles.
• Participate in our planning committee.
• Volunteer at the event.
• Sponsor or host an event at your facility.
• Provide information to clients or patrons about the daily themes of PPCM Awareness Week.

We are committed to bringing earlier detection of PPCM in new mothers.

1 in 1300 women will be diagnosed with PPCM in her lifetime. When people donate, they’re joining one community, united and committed to increasing awareness for PPCM. Discover the nationwide impact of this community, and witness the difference we can make together when we raise one more dollar, take one more step, and share one more story. 

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified additional genetic mutations that strongly predispose otherwise healthy women to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition characterized by weakness of the heart muscle that begins sometime during the final month of pregnancy through 5 months after delivery. 

PPCM often leads to lifelong heart failure and can result in severe heart failure and death.

The cause of PPCM was entirely unknown until a 2016 study suggested that certain genetic mutations predispose women to the disease. The current study identifies 4 additional genetic variants that were not previously connected to PPCM.

The study provides the first extensive genetic and phenotype landscape of PPCM and has major implications for understanding how PPCM and DCM are related to each other. It shows that predisposition to heart failure is an important risk factor for PPCM, suggesting that approaches being developed for DCM may also apply to patients with PPCM.”

Please email us at admins@letstalkppcm.org on ways to volunteer or be of help. 

Thank you!