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A 17-year-long study finds that a Mediterranean-style diet reduces stroke risk in women by more than a fifth.
Taking low-dose aspirin daily doesn’t delay the onset of disability in healthy older people. Nor does it prevent heart attack or stroke in those who hadn’t experienced either condition before.
Over the past 16 years, GPs have got much better at diagnosing and treating people with atrial fibrillation. And it’s saving lives.
New guidelines for high blood pressure lower the numbers to define and diagnose high blood pressure. Here are some things you need to know, including how to make sure you get an accurate reading.
A new study has found too few Indigenous people are getting health checks, despite their elevated risk of heart problems.
Previously, a person would be diagnosed with high blood pressure if their systolic reading was 140mmHg. But it’s recommended this threshold be lowered to 130mmHg, which will do more harm than good.
Informal caregivers contribute $25 million to the Canadian economy in unpaid labour, receiving virtually no financial support or emotional respite. More web-based interventions could help.
There are many benefits to walking - whether you do it in a group or on your own.
Taking more exercise is a New Year’s resolution to stick to. Exercise reduces risks of depression, cancers, heart disease, stroke and sudden death.
Around 300 babies and children are diagnosed with a stroke in Australia each year. But these can be diagnosed too late with devastating and life-long consequences.
They provide more than warmth.
As government representatives meet at the WHO global conference on noncommunicable diseases in Uruguay this week, their focus should be on reducing the health impacts of trade deals.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
Poor diet kills hundreds of thousands per year. If we want to achieve meaningful health care reform, we need to address our nation’s nutrition crisis.
Metabolically healthy obese people are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a large new study finds.
An expensive drug is hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins. But there is a cheaper alternative.
This article discusses the impact of a stroke on the stroke survivor and their carer’s social and mental health.
A blood pressure test can say a lot about your health, but new research says not all readings are correct.
Virtual reality has been used to treat phobias for many years, but medical researchers have began to discover that it can do so much more than that.
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Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Cardiologist at Westmead Hospital; Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Person Centred Interventions for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and their Caregivers, School of Nursing, McMaster University
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Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, Registered Dietitian, Department of Applied Human Nutrition, Faculty of Professional Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Professor of Life Course Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Head, Cardiovascular Research Unit, Monash University
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Communication Studies Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Head of Epigenetics and Neural Plasticity, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor (Hon) at Monash University, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
