Heart disease covers many problems that affect your heart. These include blood vessel diseases like coronary artery disease, heart rhythm problems, and congenital heart defects as well as other conditions.
Heart disease is also referred to as cardiovascular disease which involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain or stroke.
Other heart conditions that affect your heart’s muscle, valves or rhythm, also are considered forms of heart disease.
17% of Australians suffer from heart disease or some form of cardiovascular disease, . Heart disease remains a major health burden for Australia and causes tens of thousands of premature deaths every year.
Heart disease can be a key driver of conditions affecting the heart or the circulation of blood through the blood vessels, such conditions can include:
Causes or risk factors associated with heart disease can be categorised in two ways:
Heart Disease typically can have many forms, but sometimes heart disease may have no symptoms.
Generally, commonly observed symptoms can include:
When you visit our doctors and have any concerns about your heart please ask. Alternately, if you are at risk our doctors will ask questions around your risk factors.
No matter what type of heart disease you have, your doctor will likely
Other tests may include:
Keeping your heart healthy, whatever your age, is the most important thing you can do to help prevent and manage heart disease.
By improving your lifestyle, including your diet and level of fitness, you can minimise your risk of getting cardiovascular disease.
Even if you have two or more risk factors, you can still make changes that will reduce your chances of developing heart problems.
Treatments vary widely and can include
Where required our doctors will arrange referrals to a suitable specialist for treatment these can include Cardiologists or a Cardiovascular surgeons.