• "Who knew?" - Building the evidence base on cardiovascular disease in Australian women
• A 5 year Plan for Controlling Rheumatic Heart Disease
• A lipid management program for integration in primary care using an evidence-based approach
• A novel chemo-enzymatic approach for targeted delivery of contrast imaging agents and stem cells in cardiovascular disease
• A score for the prediction of cardiovascular events in the hypertensive aged
• A study of high risk hypertensive patients in a regional hospital in Victoria
• Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Australia: 2011 Draft Position Statement
• An Australian audit of implantable cardioverter defibrillator recipients utilising competing risk methodology
• Associations of excess weight gain during pregnancy with long-term maternal cardiovascular risks
• Asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis is now a medical condition
• Being born small can alter cardiomyocyte nuclei number which can be transmitted to the next generation
• Better hospital care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing heart attack
• Breakfast skipping and takeaway food consumption: associations with cardio-metabolic risk factors in the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) study
• Building the capacity within rural general practice settings to support lifestyle interventions
• Building the case for universal ambulance cover
• Can we increase awareness, understanding and knowledge of the warning signs of heart attack with a social marketing campaign?
• Cardiac services strategy for Central Australia - Putting research into practice
• Cardiovascular disease risk assessment communication & intention to make lifestyle changes
• Cardiovascular disease: Australian facts 2010
• Chronic heart failure patient readmissions and premature deaths: Identifying key variables
• Clinical outcomes: Screening of depression in cardiac patients
• Closing the gap between acute coronary warning signs and health access for Aboriginal patients in remote WA: Exploring the barriers for patients and health providers
• Closing the gap in Aboriginal tobacco use
• Cognitive behaviour therapy for secondary prevention: a randomised controlled trial
• Compensatory growth of healthy cardiomyocytes in diseased fetal hearts: effects on cardiomyocyte number at birth
• Comprehensive cardiovascular disease prevention in the workplace: baseline findings from partnering Healthy@Work (pH@W)
• Consequences of inflammation in utero on heart function in preterm neonates
• Contribution of non-admitted ischaemic heart disease deaths to the incidence of myocardial infarction in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Western Australians
• Debunking egg myths - Egg Nutrition Council
• Depression and Cardiovascular Disease
• Direct ambulance transfer from home to CCU significantly reduces door-to-balloon time of primary intervention in patients presenting with S-T segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)
• Early childhood obesity prevention: promising outcomes from the Melbourne InFANT Program
• ECHO in hospitalised heart failure patients predicts use of evidence-based therapy and lower 1-year mortality
• Eight years on and still effective: CVD risk factor status of patients graduated from Health Management Coaching (HMC), 2008 - 2010
• Engaging and mobilising action in primary schools and early childhood services to prevent childhood obesity - Outcomes of a statewide program
• Ethnic and gender differences in the relationship between hostility and metabolic and autonomic risk factors for coronary heart disease
• Exercise joins education: Combined therapy to improve outcomes in newly-discharged heart failure patients (EJECTION-HF)
• Exploring the interface of Aboriginal people’s engagement with health services for chronic disease in Central Australia
• Extending the reach -The Australian Go Red for Women 2010 campaign
• Factors influencing consumer use of the Heart Foundation Tick
• Food security and urban Aboriginal people: it’s not just about running out of food
• Food sensitive planning and urban design (FSPUD) - a conceptual framework for achieving a sustainable and healthy food system
• Gender differences in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI): Outcomes and possible mechanisms
• Heart disease and depression: is sequence of disease onset linked to mental and physical health outcomes?
• Heart Foundation Walking: Implementing safe, accessible and sustainable free walking groups across Australia through community partnerships
• Heart health for our people by our people: A culturally appropriate WA CR program
• Heartmoves in the residential aged care setting - lessons from an innovative pilot
• HeartSAFE - A collaborative approach to reducing New Zealand’s sodium footprint
• Helping people with coronary heart disease recognise their heart attack
• Hospital utilisation after enrolment into a heart failure chronic disease management program
• Improving mental health and lifestyle following Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) using a telephone delivered intervention: The MoodCare Trial
• Improving outcomes in acute coronary syndromes - the role of cardiac clinical networks.
• Improving the health care journey to cardiac rehabilitation for Victorian Aboriginal patients
• Incidence and survival trends of heart failure complicating first myocardial infarction in Western Australia between 1996 and 2007
• Is health care for coronary heart disease equitable in Australia?
• Is the neighbourhood environment associated with sedentary behaviour outside of school hours among children?
• J8-DT Mediated Memory Responses: Protection Against Group A Streptococcus and Prevention of Rheumatic Heart Disease
• Know your numbers (KYN) 2007-2009 Program”: Is there evidence the KYN programs improves knowledge and behaviour of participants?
• M2 macrophages produce collagen in the atherosclerotic plaque
• Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) regulates inflammatory mediators and MMP-9 levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) post myocardial infarction
• Measures of childhood adiposity that mostly strongly predict adult cardio-metabolic health: findings from the childhood determinants of adult health study
• Meeting the challenge of guideline based secondary prevention for cardiovascular patients: Establishing a nurse led intervention
• Menu Disclosure Schemes: Challenges and Opportunities
• Mild depression post event predicts death: A 12-year follow-up of women
• More or less physical activity and the effect on cardiovascular mortality in a high-risk population
• Multi-vessel coronary artery disease patients - a profoundly insulin resistant group
• Outcomes for people with atrial fibrillation in an Australian nationwide audit of stroke care
• Perioperative dysglycaemia in non-diabetic cardiac bypass surgery patients: Strong association with insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome
• Pivotal role of platelets in contributing to systemic and cardiac inflammation following acute myocardial infarction
• Pre hospital thrombolysis - Feasibility of in the field administration by paramedics in rural and regional NSW
• Pre-hospital delay in Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals with acute coronary syndrome in Western Australia
• Preterm birth has injurious and persistent effects on the structure and composition of the aorta and pulmonary artery
• Prevention of cardiovascular disease in an australian rural health care setting: The Healthy Hearts Program
• Prevention of cardiovascular disease: monitoring framework and application to risk factor prevention
• Reducing the burden of RHD on Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander people: RHDAustralia, a national approach
• Safety of early emergency department discharge utilising a novel 320-slice coronary computed tomographic angiography guided algorithm including discharge after a single troponin: A new paradigm in chest pain assessment
• Scabies mite complement inhibitors promote streptococcal skin infections, rheumatic fever and heart disease
• Sex differences in outcomes following isolated CABG surgery in Australian patients: Analysis of the Australasian society of cardiac and thoracic surgeons cardiac surgery database
• Significant challenges remain to achieve risk reduction targets for cardiovascular secondary prevention and diabetes
• Socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity: who is ‘resilient’?
• Socioeconomic inequalities in primary prevention of coronary heart disease: do they exist?
• Space for active play, involving 8-12 year old children in park design
• Sugar-sweetened beverage intakes are associated with increases in cardio-metabolic risk factors during adolescence
• Targeted messaging to assist rheumatic fever prevention in high risk people
• The Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program - A methodology to improve processes of care, patient outcomes and experience of care
• The Australian Stroke Clinical Registry: the first year of implementation
• The COACH Program results in reduced hospital admission costs within 2 years: Experience at nib Health Funds
• The collaborative methodology can assist in developing capacity for depression screening and management in cardiac rehabilitation
• The Discharge Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes (DMACS) - A national quality improvement initiative
• The impact of Lost Therapeutic Benefit (LTB) in high risk patients managed for hypertension in Australian general practice
• The implications of diabetes risk on cardiovascular disease risk
• The National Stroke Foundation’s public awareness have increased ambulance dispatches for stroke in Melbourne
• Therapeutic inertia in hypertension management: The INTEGRATE study
• Trends in out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest of presumed cardiac aetiology in Melbourne, Australia (2000-2009)
• Using taste exposure with rewards to increase liking of vegetables in 4 - 6 year old children
• Validity and reliability of a brief self-report measure of occupational sitting and physical activity: the occupational moving and sitting questionnaire
• Victoria's WorkHealth initiative, promoting health in the workplace
• Vitamin D (25(OH)D) status and cardiovascular risk in Australian adolescents
• What health practitioners need to know about antioxidants for cardiovascular health: a Heart Foundation nutrition review
• What’s the plan? Medication titration in patients with heart failure
• Which way to get children walking to school? A review of children’s travel behaviour change programs in Australia
• Why plain packaging of tobacco products is necessary

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