“Thank you for this wonderful website to get awareness out there about heart disease for women. It has been invaluable for me."
–Her Heart Donor
Dr Linda Worrall Carter heads up Her Heart, Australia’s only charity dedicated to women and heart disease. Her Heart is the only not-for-profit in Australia focused on education and awareness of heart disease, the biggest killer of women in our country.
I have been encouraged by many to write a blog for some time and often wondered why anyone would be interested in what I had to say. After many years of nursing cardiac patients, teaching nursing, and then moving on to carrying out 15 years of research in Women and Heart Disease however, I realised I had much to offer women on this topic.
Collins 234 Boutique, Melbourne generously hosted a Mothers’ Day Pop Up Cart for Her Heart during Heart Week 2016. The event helped to raise awareness about heart disease in women…
As there is no cure for the leading type of heart disease that kills women, women have been advised to take preventative measures. “They need to own this disease. Women’s health should be defined as women’s heart health.” Said Dr. Sharonne Hayes at Canada’s first summit on the crisis of women’s heart health.
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Heart disease is the leading killer of Australian women, yet only 28 per cent of women know this. One Australian woman died of heart disease every hour in 2015, three times the number that died of breast cancer. This imbalance is what has led Dr Linda Worrall-Carter, who has a PhD in nursing, to change tack after 15 years researching heart disease at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s hospital, to establish Her Heart.
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