The shocking health fact every woman must know
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.