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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
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 warning signs 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 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
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
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.

Heart Foundation Walking

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

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

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

Hypertension

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

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