• A collaborative model for the development of CVD clinical guidelines in Australia
• A pilot study of the feasibility and potential benefit of central blood pressure monitoring in cardiac rehabilitation
• A randomised controlled comparison of clinical outcomes and accuracy associated with CARTOSOUND mapping compared to electro-anatomical mapping for atrial fibrillation ablation
• A retrospective audit of the Hospital Admission Risk Program (HARP)-Coaching for heart health to evaluate effectiveness of secondary prevention of modifiable risk factors of coronary heart disease
• A tobacco advocacy collaboration, working with local governments in Victoria and New South Wales
• Access to action: Physical activity, CVD/diabetes and ethnicity
• Achieving coordinated Secondary Prevention of coronary heart disease for All in Need (SPAN)
• Addressing a barrier to exercise participation for older adults: A review of the efficacy of a revised health and risk assessment process for the Agestrong program
• AusSCORE relates to cost of isolated CABG surgery
• Autonomic neurocardiac dysregulation in R6/1 transgenic model of Huntington’s disease
• Barriers to participating in cardiac rehabilitation: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative data
• Best practice multidisciplinary care for chronic heart failure in Australia
• Blood pressure and body fat: a comparison of the associations in Australian and Vietnamese populations
• Cardiovascular clinical outcome and quality registries - An Australian perspective
• Cardiovascular disease risk in young women
• Chronic repetitive intermittent hypoxia- inducing cardiac left ventricular free wall thickening in a rabbit model is associated with c-kit myocardial tissue expression
• Complementary Medicines In Cardiovascular Disease - Review Of The Evidence By The National Institute Of Complementary Medicine
• Development of a new model of care for cardiac rehabilitation in South Australia
• Development of a risk score for predicting mortality beyond 30-day after CABG surgery for the Australian population
• Diabetes has a greater association with polyvascular atherothrombotic disease than single territory vascular disease
• Diannexin, an Annexin-V-homodimer, reduces cardiac ischemia reperfusion injury in rats
• Dietary patterns are prospectively associated with increases in cardio-metabolic risk factors during adolescence
• Do haemodynamics in patients with Acute Anterior and Non-Anterior ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) explain gender differences in outcome?
• Early and late outcomes after isolated coronary artery bypass surgery in elderly patients: Results from a multi-institutional Australian database
• Eliminating disparities in hospital cardiovascular care of Aboriginal people in Western Australia (WA)
• Empowering patients to stay well with heart failure: development of a self-management resource
• Ethanolic Extract of Zingiber officinalis (Ginger) suppresses hepatic NF-kB
• Evaluating variation in care for patients hospitalized with Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS): CONCORDANCE Qualitative Substudy
• Evaluation of a cardiovascular diet quality tool in cardiac rehabilitation
• Evaluation of the Wahgunyah factory canteen makeover
• Farmers and chest pain: the difficulty of decisions, distance and delay
• Farmers and their hearts - risk factors and preventative medication
• G-Protein coupled receptors transactivate the transforming growth factor beta-type I receptor in vascular smooth muscle cell proteoglycan synthesis
• Gamma-secretase mediated NFkappaB-Bim activation induces neuronal cell death in stroke
• Genders as a risk factor in young, not in old, women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
• Global and regional left ventricular function and volume assessment with 320-slice computed tomography: A comparison with 2D-Echocardiography
• Health professional training in chronic disease self management: evaluation of an online program
• Health professional training in chronic disease self-management: evaluation of a group program
• HealthTracker- Decision support for primary care practitioners
• Heart health program veteran long term outcomes
• Heart smart for women: A cardiovascular disease prevention project for women over 40 living in a locationally disadvantaged area in Sydney’s south-west
• Helping cardiac patients who smoke make positive, long-lasting changes in their lives
• Illness perceptions, depression and quality of life: What are the links?
• Impact of depression subtype and comorbid anxiety on heart rate variability
• Impact of radial artery harvest on forearm function and symptoms: a long term analysis from a randomised trial
• Implementation of a chest pain management service improves patient care and reduces costs
• Improving patient care: Chronic heart failure self management in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Improving the management of hypertension in primary care: A needs assessment of Australian GPs
• Intergenerational educational mobility and its association with healthy lifestyle behaviours in a cohort of young Australian adults
• Investigation of a role for PKR in obesity and related diseases
• Keeping active with a chronic disease: Phase 4Ever project
• Measuring time since symptom onset through emergency departments to fill a gap in Australian Acute Coronary Syndrome data collection
• Milk fat - what are the market dynamics?
• Multiple uses of lifestyle survey in pacific church community projects in New Zealand
• National data systems and best practice guidelines for rheumatic heart disease control
• National partnerships for healthy spaces & places
• National survey of Australian cardiologists' beliefs and practice regarding screening, diagnosis and management of depression in cardiac patients
• Neuroprotective mechanisms of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) in stroke
• Nicotine induced electrical remodelling of the rat atria: Implications for atrial fibrillation
• Novel single-chain antibody-targeted microbubbles for molecular imaging of small thrombi in the mouse carotid artery via contrast enhanced ultrasound
• Opposing socioeconomic gradients among overweight and obese Victorians: implications for research
• Oral health and heart disease
• Patients’ perceptions of the role of cardiac rehabilitation in return to work
• Physiological mechanisms associated with cognitive impairment in heart failure patients
• Pigs might fly, or pie in the sky? The advocacy journey of the Health in All Policies Collaboration in Tasmania
• Platelet aggregation and inflammation in children with sleep disordered breathing
• Preventing heart disease and dementia: Implications of the current evidence
• Preventing weight gain among Western Australian adults: Results of the Draw the Line campaign
• Public heath impact of MARS chocolate product reformulations
• Quicker quality checks: Using electronic pharmacy data to estimate discharge medication usage for cardiac patients
• Real World Experience of Efficacy of Adding EZETIMIBE to Statin Therapy (On Maximal Tolerated Doses)
• Reducing heart disease in our Aboriginal communities:My Heart My Family Our Culture educational resources
• Regular exercise for peripheral arterial ischaemia: A randomised controlled intervention trial (REPAIR IT)
• Relationship between aortic dilatation with aortic valve dysfunction in patients with bicuspid aortic valve
• Relative importance of risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality: a prospective cohort study
• Retinal venular dilatation is attenuated in patients with cardiovascular disease
• Risk factor status and response to The COACH Program (TCP) in public and private cardiovascular patients
• Role of adiponectin receptor mediated signalling in ischaemic stroke
• Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: A call to action to improve the health of Australians
• Social determainats of health responsible for the rates of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in north west Queensland
• Socioeconomic disparities in self-reported cardiovascular disease for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults: analysis of national survey data
• Spicing up your advice - CVD, diabetes, ethnicity & diet: There’s no action without it!
• Testosterone contributes to the gender-specific cardiac fibrotic phenotype that is associated with male relaxin-deficient mice
• The Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) resource exchange
• The association between hyperglycaemia and outcomes after cardiac surgery
• The COACH Program (TCP) in preventive cardiology
• The development and process evaluation of a physical activity and nutrition program for people aged 60-70
• The dipeptide L-glycyl-glutamine improves the recovery of isolated and perfused rat hearts from ischaemia reperfusion
• The occurrence of metabolic syndrome in Korean and Chinese immigrant women
• The prevalence and risk factors of symptomatic and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in older adult emergency department patients
• The relevance and resonance of heart attack warning signs messages with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The role of Interleukin 22 and Non-ELR-CXC Chemokines in human carotid plaque
• The Victorian health monitor - A physical and biomedical measurement survey
• Threat, coping and emotional distress to predict health behaviour change after percutanous coronary intervention
• Touchscreen: A new approach to depression screening in CVD patients
• Towards a collaborative approach to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and dementia
• Update of the Heart Foundation Recommendations of Marine n-3 Fatty Acids for Patients with Heart Disease
• Use and outcomes of cardiac pacemakers after AMI
• Vascular NADPH oxidases in hypertension and stroke: The role of NOX1 and NOX4
• What can tone and entropy tell us about risk of arrhythmia?
• Where next for interventions to prevent obesity? A third generation for intervention science

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