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Heart health

Good heart health is essential for your overall health. Your cardiovascular system includes your heart and blood vessels (veins and arteries). Your heart pumps blood and delivers oxygen and nutrients throughout your body.

A healthy lifestyle can reduce your risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Together, coronary heart disease and CVD are a leading cause of death in women in Australia.

Learn more about cardiovascular disease, the additional risk factors for CVD in women and what you can do to look after your heart.

Cardiovascular disease

Symp­toms, caus­es, risk fac­tors and how the dis­ease dif­fers between women and men.
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Looking after your heart

How a healthy diet, reg­u­lar phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and heart health checks can help.
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This con­tent has been reviewed by a group of med­ical sub­ject mat­ter experts, in accor­dance with Jean Hailes pol­i­cy. It has been pro­duced in part­ner­ship with the Heart Foun­da­tion.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Heart, stroke and vascular disease: Australian facts, July 2023