Sunday, 5 May 2024, 8:37 PM
Site: Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery
Course: Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery (Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery.)
Glossary: Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery Terms / References
PATIENT RESOURCES - RISK FACTORS

Heart Foundation Walking website

For patients to sign up to a free walking group or get their six-week Personal Walking Plan to motivate them to be active.  

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Home page for Heart Foundation Personal Walking Plans sign up page

For a video on Personal Walking Plans, click here


Hypertension

Clinical information for the diagnosis and management of hypertension.

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Heart foundation homepage on hypertension clinical information, diagnosis and management



Lipid management

Clinical information, tools, resources and guidelines for lipid management.

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Landing page for the heart foundation lipid management, clinical information, and resources


Nutrition - Free Heart Foundation resources

Patients can download the Heart Foundations e-recipe books. Click on the image to access the site

Image of free ebook on healthy eating from the Heart Foundation

You can also recommend the Heart Foundations Healthy recipes and Heart Healthy Dinner plan to your patients.

Heart Foundation website for nutrition information and video on portion sizes can be found here.

Please note, this e-learning is updated regularly but please note that our resource offerings may change

Nutrition position statements

The position statements include:

Heart Healthy Eating Patterns
Meat and Heart Healthy Eating 
Eggs and Heart Healthy Eating 
Dairy and Heart Healthy Eating 
Dietary Fat and Heart Healthy Eating
Salt  
Fish and Seafood 
Phytosterol/Stanol Enriched Foods 
Heart Foundation Nutrition Recommendations (2019)
Alcohol 

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Heart foundation web page for nutrition position statement


Physical activity - Exercise right

For more information on exercise and heart conditions, click the image below

Image of landing page for exercise and heart conditions

Physical Activity - Heart health

Easy-to-understand resource from the Health Foundation about physical activity, it's benefits and how to be more physically active.

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Physical Activity


Physical Activity - Walking

Quit Now

Australian Government Department of Health website for advice and support about stopping smoking.

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Homepage for Australian Government Department of Health website on how to quit smoking 

Smoking - Quit Now

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