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  1. Recovering from a heart attack

    Make sure you follow your plan when you leave hospital, take your medication and keep your appointments with doctors.

  2. Heart attack

    Heart attack is an emergency. If you have warning signs of heart attack, get help fast. Call triple zero (000) and ask for an ambulance.

  3. Heart disease - eating for a healthy heart (video)

    Learn the three steps you can take to improve your heart health today.

  4. Heart

    Information and links to fact sheets about the heart, heart disease and heart attacks.

  5. Heart disease - enlarged heart

    An enlarged heart isn't a condition in itself, but a symptom of an underlying problem that is causing the heart to work harder than normal.

  6. Heart failure

    Heart failure is a condition where the heart muscle doesn’t pump blood to the rest of the body as well as it should.

  7. Heart attack and stroke – calculating your risk score

    As part of a Heart Health Check, your doctor will calculate your cardiovascular disease risk score. Your risk score estimates your risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 5 years.

  8. Living with a heart condition

    Attending cardiac rehabilitation will help you to create a good foundation for living with your heart condition.

  9. Heart explained

    The heart is about the size of a clenched fist and lies in the middle of your chest, behind and slightly to the left of your breastbone.

  10. Heart murmur

    Many children have innocent heart murmurs that don?t require any treatment, but medical tests are often needed to check.

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