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  • Your heart

    Understanding your heart

    Learn about how to have a healthy heart and living with heart conditions.

    More about your heart
    • How your heart works
    • Keep your heart healthy
    • Know your risks
    • Heart conditions
    • Heart attack symptoms
    • Living with heart disease
    • Women and heart disease
    • Aboriginal Health

    Heart conditions

    Find out about heart conditions, how they’re diagnosed and what can be done about them.

    Will you recognise your heart attack?

    The symptoms of heart attack can be varied and may not always be sudden or severe.

  • After my heart attack

    What happened to your heart?

    Some people do not even notice they are having a heart attack, others have a massive heart attack like you see on TV.

    About your heart attack
    • Heart attack FAQ
    • About heart attacks
    • Heart attack treatment
    • Heart attack recovery
    • Caring for someone who has had a heart attack
    • Heart attack stories
    • Heart attack support

    Heart attack treatment

    What happens while you are in hospital and know what questions to ask.

    First steps for recovery

    Setting goals and priorities for your emotional and physical health will help you recover.

  • Healthy eating

    Get the balance right

    Follow our approach to healthy eating to help achieve and maintain a healthy weight and have the energy to live life to the full. It’s never too late to start improving the way you eat.

    Easy tips and advice
    • Food and nutrition
    • Food labels
    • Heart Foundation Tick
    • Recipes

    Healthy recipes

    Choose one of our delicious and healthier recipes to help achieve and maintain a healthy weight - and have the energy to live life to the full.

    Heart Foundation Tick

    The Tick helps guide consumers to a healthier product, when compared to similar products, while standing in the supermarket aisle.

  • Active living

    Making it easy to be active everyday

    Regular physical activity makes you less likely to have a heart attack or develop heart disease.

    Learn more
    • Get active
    • Sit less
    • Active families
    • Active workplaces
    • Healthy active communities

    Heart Foundation Walking

    Take the first steps to increase your physical activity by joining Australia’s largest free community-based walking network.

    Jump Rope for Heart

    Established in 1983, Heart Foundation Jump Rope for Heart is renowned for being one of Australia’s most popular physical activity and fundraising programs in schools.

  • Research

    We fund amazing research

    The Heart Foundation is a national leader in research into the causes, treatment and prevention of heart disease and related disorders.

    Research
    • Our research program
    • Research networks
    • Research case studies
    • Our researchers
    • Research funding
    • Awards

    Apply for funding

    We offer a range of funding across a variety of categories for research into heart, stroke and blood vessel disease.

    Current research

    We're funding close to 200 research fellowships, scholarships and grants.

  • Get involved

    Help stop the heartache

    Make a difference: join one of our events, have fun and raise vital funds to keep Australian hearts beating.

    Get involved
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    Our lifesaving work

    We're working non-stop to prevent early death and disability from heart disease and stroke.

    Leave a lasting legacy with a gift in your Will

    A gift in your Will is an incredibly powerful way to help the one million Australians with heart disease and change the future of heart health in Australia.

  • For professionals

    Health professionals

    Up-to-date cardiovascular health information for the professional community.

    For professionals
    • Food and nutrition
    • Built environment
    • Heart Foundation Tick for food manufacturers
    • Physical activity
    • Heart health network
    • Clinical information
    • Online learning
    • GP Request for free patient literature

    Absolute Risk

    Absolute cardiovascular disease risk is the numerical probability of a cardiovascular event occurring within a five-year period.

    Patient Doctor

    Hypertension

    Guidelines, tools and publications for treatment and management for hypertension.

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  • Meals and food

    Meals and food

    Eating healthy foods will help you recover and reduce your risk of more heart problems.

    Learn more

  • How to make healthier meals

    How to make healthier meals

    Easy ways to change your favourite recipes to reduce the energy (kilojoules) or saturated fat content.

    Learn more

  • Healthy meal ideas

    Healthy meal ideas

    Make healthier, lower energy (kilojoule) meals and snacks with these ideas.

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