Heartbeat Victoria wishes all its members and those with heart related health conditions all the very best for the festive season. May the year 2025 be a year where you can focus on your heart health and benefit from the...
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Life After a Heart Attack: the Baker Institute and Heartbeat Victoria
Read MoreA heart attack is a shocking event that can have a major impact on a person’s life. Also known as a ‘myocardial infarction’, it occurs when blood flow to part of the heart is blocked, often by a blood clot....
Heat and Heart Health Presentation
Read MoreAt Heartbeat Victoria’s Annual General Meeting on 11 September, guest speaker, Georgia Chaseling, gave an informative and thought provoking presentation on research relating to heat and heart health. In her presentation, a copy of which is included in the Resources...
World Heart Day
Read MoreNationally, over 40,000 Australians die from cardiovascular diseases (an umbrella term used for a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels) each year, with nearly 600,000 hospitalised. Heart disease also remains the leading cause of death and...
AGM 2024
Read MoreAnnual General Meeting – Heartbeat Victoria Council Inc Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at 7.15pm Via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/94570060537 Meeting ID: 945 7006 0537 The agenda for the meeting includes: Guest speaker Dr Georgia Chaseling Presentation of the Annual Report including Financial Statement...
Professor Andrew Murphy Joins the Board
Read MoreProfessor Andrew Murphy has recently joined the Board of Heartbeat Victoria. Professor Murphy holds a PhD in cardiovascular disease from Monash University. He has been exploring the fundamental biological process that influence atherosclerosis, the leading cause of heart disease for...
Dr Georgia Chaseling
Read MoreDr Georgia Chaseling will be the guest speaker at Heartbeat Victoria’s 2024 Annual General Meeting. Dr Chaseling is a cardiovascular and thermal physiologist with experience investigating the influence of heat and exercise on thermal, cardiovascular, and perceptual outcomes amongst...
Heart2Heart Trial
Read MoreSolve CHD is recruiting for participants to trial access to a purpose-built digital app designed to provide social connection for people diagnosed with heart disease. To be eligible you must have: Diagnosis of heart disease, for example heart attack or...
Volunteers needed for heart disease peer support research
Read MoreSolve CHD is a multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians from across Australia with backgrounds in allied health, nursing, cardiology, public health, health economics and psychology. Its goal is to transform post-discharge secondary prevention and reduce the burden of heart...
Stories about living with heart disease
Read MoreThe Baker Institute is one of Heartbeat Victoria’s partnership communities working on heart disease. The Baker is looking for people to act as consumer informers to promote its research and donations appeal. In order to improve the outcomes and diagnosis...