- Healthy Living
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Healthy Eating
- Eating healthier often sounds more complicated than it needs to be here is some more...
Healthy Recipes
- Sweet and savoury treats for a few or a crowd, some old favourites madeover, or...
Exercise and Fitness
- Being active is key for having a healthy heart. Doing just 30 minutes of moderate...
Losing Weight
- Your weight can make a big difference to your risk of developing heart disease.
Quitting Smoking
- Quitting smoking is hard but there’s lots of help and support available to help...
Managing Blood Pressure
- Tips on how to change your lifestyle to manage your blood pressure
Managing Stress
- There are lots of ways you can manage stress in a healthy way.
Know Your Heart Risk
- Take time to find out what factors put you at risk of developing heart disease or...
Heart Foundation Tick
- The symbol you can trust to make healthier food choices
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- Know the Facts
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Statistics
- General heart statistics for New Zealand
Your Heart
- Your heart is a muscle. It's located a little to the left of the middle of your...
Food and Drink
- The food and drink you choose to eat can play a huge part in looking after your...
Risks and Causes
- There are known risks and causes for heart disease. Some are lifestyle factors you...
Conditions
- Find out more about different types of heart conditions
Tests
- Tests help your doctor decide how best you can be treated; they can also help...
Treatments
- There are many different treatments for heart disease. Find out more about heart...
Living with Heart Disease
- Are you or is someone in your family living with heart disease?
Heart Words Glossary A-Z
- A heart glossary for definition for the heart terms or words you're unsure of
Know Your Numbers
- Forecast your risk of a heart attack and stroke now
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- Get Involved
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Make a donation today
- The Heart Foundation is a charity and we need your donation to stop New Zealander's...
Online Shop
- Looking for something for yourself or someone else? a Heart Foundation gift is a...
Heart Foundation Lottery
- Be in to win this delightful Jennian dream home in coastal Whangamata and help save...
Volunteer
- Support us by joining our inspirational team of volunteers.
Fundraise
- Raise funds for the Heart Foundation and help our work. There are lots of ways to...
Corporate Support
- The Heart Foundation has great support from the corporate community. Find out how...
Take Action
- Thousands of New Zealand families endure the pain, loss and immeasurable suffering...
Go Red for Women
- Go Red for Women is the Heart Foundation's rallying call to the women of New Zealand...
Annual Appeal 2012
- When your heart stops... so do you. We need your support now.
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- Our Work
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How We Help
- We help with research and grants, improving pacific health, providing heart health...
About Us
- We are a not-for-profit, non-government organisation that funds research and...
Careers
- Your opportunity to build a rewarding career.
Research
- We provide a strong scientific voice on heart and circulatory disease
Grants
- Every year, we fund research that will improve the heart health of New Zealanders....
Our Locations
- We have 19 Heart Foundation branches across the country. Get in touch if there is...
Positions, Submissions and Policy
- Our positions, submissions and policy on New Zealand health and well being issues
Heart Life Newsletter
- Hot off the press, Heart Life is our quarterly newsletter designed to keep you up to...
About Us
- We are a not-for-profit, non-government organisation that funds research and...
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- Programmes & Resources
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Schools and ECE services
- Our successful programmes have been running in schools and ECE services for over 25...
Food Industry
- Find out more about the work that we do with food manufacturers and the food and...
Health Professionals
- Information on the programmes, courses and guidelines available from the Heart...
Pacific Health
- The Heart Foundation is committed to improving the Pacific heart health, find out...
Order Resources
- Heart health resources, presentation aids, guides, booklets and posters
Your Heart Forecast
- The Your Heart Forecast tool help communicate cardiovascular risk to your patients
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- Blogs & Stories
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Circulate Blog
- Stay up to date with our latest news, views and opinions
Stories
- Read stories of everyday New Zealanders beating Heart Disease
Ask a Question
- Have a question about heart health? Ask us
Annual Appeal 2012
- When your heart stops... so do you. We need your support now.
Auckland mayor Len Brown's story
- At 51 years of age, Len suffered a major heart attack while delivering a speech at...
Submit a Story
- Do you have a story to tell that will inspire and motivate others?
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Your Heart Forecast
Communicating cardiovascular risk to your patients and encouraging them to make important lifestyle changes remains a challenge - the Your Heart Forecast tool helps.
The Your Heart Forecast tool was designed by Drs Sue Wells and Andrew Kerr, at the University of Auckland, and supported by the Heart Foundation, to help doctors and nurses address that challenge using a graphic story.
The graphic story shows patients:
- Their current risk (where they are now)
- How it relates to a peer with ideal risk factor control and same CVD risk (their cardiovascular age)
- What would happen to their risk as they get older and made no changes (their heart forecast), and conversely
- What would happen to their risk if they made healthy lifestyle changes, for example, stopped smoking.
Your Heart Forecast has been provided free of charge by the Heart Foundation and is available online or you can download it. Please note the download is in .ZIP format - you will need to unzip the Your Heart Forecast tool once before use (requires Flash). Contact us if you have any trouble.
Use the Your Heart Forecast online tool
Know Your Numbers - the consumer tool
