Heart Disease — can I give blood? (Vitalant (US))
What is the waiting period for Heart Disease — can I give blood? (Vitalant (US))?
For Heart Disease, waiting period is 6 months; condition is after a heart disease incident or heart attack, provided specific criteria are met; outcome is temporary deferral; blood service is Vitalant (US), recorded from its source on 2026-08-13.
Heart Disease: If you have a history of heart disease or heart attacks, you may be eligible to donate provided 6 months have elapsed from the incident and other specific criteria have been met.
— vitalant.org, retrieved 2026-08-13
6 months
How long you must wait before donating (or the age/weight bound), exactly as this blood service prints it — the passage it comes from is quoted on the record page. National services genuinely disagree on the same criterion; check the service you would donate with.
- Criterion
- Heart Disease verified
- Blood service
- Vitalant (US) our reading
- Waiting period
- 6 months verified
- Condition
- after a heart disease incident or heart attack, provided specific criteria are met
- Outcome
- temporary deferral our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
Source
- vitalant.orghttps://www.vitalant.org/eligibility