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Site: Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery
Course: Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery (Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery.)
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Cardiac rehabilitation resources - The Heart foundation

Content and resources for health professionals with useful cardiac rehabilitation. 

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Webpage for cardiac rehabilitation resources for healthcare providers

My Heart My Life program

Health professionals can test the program and sign-up their service or clinic.

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Image of my heart my life landing page

The Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA)

The Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association is the peak body which provides support and advocacy for multidisciplinary health professionals to deliver evidence-based best practice across the continuum of cardiovascular care.

To visit their website, click on the logo

Loco for ACRA

Health Literacy

Health literacy is about how people understand information about health and health care, and how they apply that information to their lives, use it to make decisions and act on it. Health literacy is important because it shapes people’s health and the safety and quality of health care.

Depression in patients

Screening, referral and treatment for depression in patients with coronary heart disease.

Article from The Medical Journal of Australia 

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Medical Journal of Australia logo


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


Healthy weight

To determine if patients are in the healthy weight range by accurately measuring waist circumference and calculating BMI, click on the image below.

Homepage to Heart Foundation's health weight resource


Emotional and social wellbeing

Information on coronary heart disease and mental health.

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Heart foundation homepage on coronary heart disease and mental health

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