Are women dying unnecessarily of heart disease?

Some of Australia’s leading experts on heart health met at a roundtable in Sydney in December 2018 to discuss worrying findings that women with heart disease may get poorer treatment and have worse outcomes, compared with men. Jointly organised by the Sax Institute, the Heart Foundation and the University of Sydney, the roundtable gathered together … Read more

45 and Up Study helps unravel link between depression and heart disease

Psychological distress and IHD

New research using the Sax Institute’s 45 and Up Study is helping to explain the link between depression and ischaemic heart disease (IHD), showing that psychological distress in middle-aged and older people may signal the early signs and symptoms the disease. The researchers said it was known that people who experience psychological distress – which … Read more