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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.

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

Without treatment, frequent and prolonged panic attacks can be severely disabling.

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.

With a heart attack every minute counts. The warning signs of a heart attack can be varied and may not always be sudden or severe. Find out more from cardiologist Professor Ian Meredith.

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

A transient ischaemic attack (sometimes called a mini-stroke) is a warning that a stroke may follow, and requires urgent medical attention.

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

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.

Angina attacks can be prompted by exertion or physical exercise, when the hard-working heart muscle requires greater amounts of oxygen.