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While Africa accounts for roughly 25% of the global disease burden, its people are largely invisible in randomised controlled trials.
Young adults can take basic but powerful steps to address risk factors that set the stage for heart disease.
A biokineticist offers four tips to help your heart.
Catching the flu or COVID can trigger a heart attack or stroke in vulnerable people. Here’s what we can all do to lower our risk.
Despite calls from some corners to switch from canola oil and corn oil to beef tallow, the move is unlikely to make Americans healthier.
Women with a higher genetic risk of depression are more likely to develop heart disease – even if they’ve never had a diagnosis of depression or other psychiatric disorders.
Elvis died on the toilet, possibly of a heart attack. A new Australian-led study involving thousands of people sheds new light on how constipation and heart attacks are linked.
Before menopause, women’s hearts tend to be protected by their circulating hormones. In midlife, they may well get a shock when a doctor outlines their health risks.
Eating too much salt is bad for our health. Governments and food manufacturers have a big role to play in reducing the salt content of Australians’ diets.
The increased risks of heart attack and stroke after COVID shown in a recent study, could drive a new pandemic of heart disease over coming years.
A new study has explored whether cardiovascular risk factors are associated with a higher likelihood of depression.
Psychological factors are under-recognised as risk factors for heart attack. But research shows the more stress someone is under, the greater their risk of heart disease and death.
Cardiovascular risk factors like diabetes and hypertension are preventable or relatively easy to treat with inexpensive medication.
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Research Fellow Global Health, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor of Global Health, Institute for Applied Research, University of Birmingham
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Executive Director, George Institute Australia; Professor of Medicine, UNSW
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Co-Director of Global Chronic and Complex Diseases, George Institute for Global Health
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Human Genomics, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, cardiovascular epidemiologist and clinical trialist, Curtin University