At today's Go Red Luncheon at the Atlantis there was a Salute to Survivors Gallery that profiled nearly a dozen heart patients--all women all in their fight against heart disease.

If you're looking for your average heart patients here, you probably won't find her. That's because heart disease and stroke can occur in women at anytime in life. Barbara Olive says she was doing everything right when it happened to her.

” I was going all the things that I should be doing and I was a little upset because it happened, then I found out my cousin who was at West Point had a heart attack,” says Barbara.

There are younger women here who have had their bout with heart disease as well. For Lisa Cooke it all happened at the wrong time.

“My chest, I thought I had pneumonia, it was congestive heart failure. About three weeks later I found out I was pregnant. Between the heart and the baby and all those issues I had terrific care and I was brought through. He is four years old and doing wonderful,” says Lisa.

Both Lisa and Barbara were featured in the Salute to Survivors Gallery. Inside the Go Red Luncheon hundreds of women and men wearing red gathered to bring awareness to heart disease and raise money for the cause.

Its estimated heart disease kills about 450-thousand women each year. That equates into about one woman every minute. Go Red hopes to encourage women to improve their heart health by changing risk factors they have control of like high blood pressure, and being aware of those risk factors they can't control like age, gender and even genetics.