Public Health: News and Research on Heart Disease Risk Factors

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Overuse of in-hospital blood pressure medications

Patients in hospital for non-heart related conditions may be unnecessarily receiving blood pressure medication that has no benefit and could instead be harmful in the short term, a new review has found.

Your pay, postcode and parents affect your heart disease risk

Most of us know our risk of heart disease increases as we age, and it's more common in men. But are you aware the risk of heart disease, and of death from heart disease, is greater if you're Indigenous or of low socioeconomic ...

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