Cardiovascular disease is Australia's greatest health problem. Find out how you can protect yourself or manage your condition with information on risk factors, tests, blood pressure, stroke, cholesterol, angina, heart failure, treatments and much more.
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- Blood and the circulatory system
- Blood pressure
- Cardiovascular conditions
- Cholesterol
- Stroke and vascular disease
- Tests and treatments for heart health
Images & Animations
- Animation: stroke
- Cholesterol and your arteries
- Coronary arteries
- Heart anatomy
- Heart: how your heart pumps blood around your body
Health Story
- Long QT syndrome: the Foley family's story
- Stroke: rosemary's experience
- Stroke: Michael's story
- Stroke at 13: liesl's story
- Metabolic syndrome: one man's story
Tests & Investigations
- Blood donations
- Blood transfusions
- Cholesterol tests
- Coronary angiography
- Electrocardiogram - ECG
- Exercise stress testing
- Full blood count (FBC)
- Health checks you should have: a checklist
Tools and Risk Tests
- Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator
- Diabetes Risk Test
- Heart disease risk assessment
- Ideal Weight Calculator
- Smoking Cost Calculator
- Stroke Risk Test
- Target Heart Rate Calculator
- Waist-to-hip Ratio Calculator
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Medicine & Treatments
- Angina treatments
- Anticoagulants
- Aspirin
- Australian scientists work on new hypertension therapies
- Blood donation crisis for Red Cross
- Cholesterol lowering margarines
- Cholesterol lowering through lifestyle changes
- Cholesterol: treatments for high cholesterol
- Coronary artery surgery
- First aid for stroke
- Haemophilia treatment: replacement therapy
- Heart transplants
- High blood pressure treatments
- Intensive therapy helps post-stroke communication
- Kangaroo heart valves offer hope for valve replacement
- Monitored exercise programmes encouraged in heart failure
- Obesity measures carry equal weight
- Policosanol for high cholesterol
- Polypill hints at future heart disease prevention
- Sclerotherapy
- Stopping statin medications suddenly could be fatal
- Stroke: can it be cured?
- Use of heart disease and blood pressure medications soars
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