What’s the best diet to follow to prevent heart disease? Professor David Celermajer outlines what foods are best to eat.
Heart Attacks and Strokes
What are the signs of an unhealthy heart?
Are there signs or symptoms of an unhealthy heart? Find out from Professor David Celermajer.
What are risk factor scores for heart attack?
So there are things that your doctor will be able to tell you called risk scores. You type it into...
Low blood pressure: What are the causes
Low blood pressure can be unpleasant, but why does it happen? Dr Norman Swan outlines some of the causes.
Rhesus-negative blood and pregnancy
If a pregnant woman is rhesus (Rh) negative and her fetus is Rh positive, the fetus (and any subsequent fetus) may be at risk of health problems.
Palpitations: symptoms and diagnosis
Palpitations are sensations of excessively strong and/or irregular heartbeats. Find out more about the causes and treatment for palpitations.
Anaemia
If results from a full blood count indicate you have anaemia, there are further blood tests that can be done to determine the cause of your anaemia.
Happy-go-lucky optimists may have better heart health
Medical researchers have a longstanding interest in mindset, and not just as it relates to mental health, it seems that happy-go-lucky optimists may have better heart health.
Heart disease
Every Aboriginal person is at risk of heart disease, so it’s important to look out for the warning signs so we can help ourselves and help each other. Lots of Aboriginal people have died of heart attack because they didn’t even know they were having one.
Researchers analyse trials on Vitamin D and heart health
A huge analysis of vitamin D supplementation shows that taking Vitamin D supplements aren’t linked to reduced risk of heart attack and stroke.
