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Your heart
Understanding your heart

Learn how your heart works and living with heart conditions.
More about your heart
Will you recognise your heart attack?

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

Heart conditions

Find out about heart conditions, how they’re diagnosed and what can be done about them.
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 heart and have the energy to live life to the full.
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.
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
Start walking today

Discover the benefits of walking and join our community of walkers across the country.

Jump Rope for Heart

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
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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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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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Help fund ground-breaking research that could mend damaged hearts.

Your donation today could help move forward research that could save lives and keep more families together.

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 health information for the professional community.
For professionals
Hypertension

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

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