2005 ANNUAL REPORT NOW AVAILABLE

VDF's 2005 Annual Report is now available. To preserve the pages in Keeping in Circulation focused on disease information, we are not including the Annual Report, but are making it available to you. To request a copy, contact us at 1-888-VDF-4INFO, or write to our Lakewood address or to info@vdf.org. Those who contributed in 2005 will be automatically mailed a copy in July.

The Vascular Disease Foundation supports its mission to provide vascular disease education and advocacy. Highlights of VDF activities from 2005 included:

• Worked closely with development of the PAD Coalition and its committees and programs to develop a national PAD awareness campaign in partnership with the NHLBI and 43 member organizations.
• Helped with the PAD Coalition first annual meeting.
• Redesigned the VDF Web site. Visitors to the VDF site come from as many as 120 counties. More than 250 other Web sites in the U.S. and abroad link to the Foundation or reference it as an expert resource.
• Published a new brochure on varicose veins.
• Published four issues of Keeping in Circulation, the official newsletter of the Vascular Disease Foundation.
• Supported dozens of health fairs and programs across the United States with materials and information.
• Provided information to the public and to medical professionals at thirteen major meetings and conferences.
• Hosted the fifth annual "Keeping in Circulation at the Gardens" information and screening program in Colorado.
• Received 400,000 visits, hundreds of phone calls, e-mails, and letters from patients and others seeking information and assistance.
• Helped pass the SAAAVE Act through the many letters sent by Keeping in Circulation readers to U.S. Congressional members.
• Conducted professional training workshops on the Ankle-Brachial Index, which is used to diagnose PAD.