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My Heart Check is a free, online heart health check. It uses your personal risk factors to assess your heart age and gives you tips for reducing risk.

 
 

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Our purpose: to stop all people in New Zealand dying prematurely from heart disease and enable people with heart disease to live full lives

180,000
people in New Zealand are currently living with heart disease

That's more than one in 23 adults [1]

1 in 3
Almost 1 in 3 deaths in NZ are caused by cardiovascular disease

It is the leading cause of death in New Zealand and includes heart, stroke and blood vessel disease [2]

90 mins
Every 90 minutes a New Zealander dies from heart disease

Many of these deaths are premature and preventable [2]

$95m
The Heart Foundation has invested into research since 1968

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News & Stories
30 June 2025 in Stories

New research into the impact of diabetes on cardiovascular disease could benefit thousands of New Zealanders

A researcher from the University of Auckland’s Bioengineering Institute has been granted a three-year A. H. Couch Trust Heart Foundation Scholarship to investigate how diabetes significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular complications – a move that could one day benefit thousands of New Zealanders’ health.

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12 June 2025 in Blogs

Five ways volunteering makes you happy

Did you know that volunteering for a great cause like the Heart Foundation can increase your happiness and health? Doing good for others is also good for you.

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21 May 2025 in Stories

“I’m very lucky to be alive”

Pete’s dangerously high blood pressure went unnoticed — until it nearly killed him. At just 44, he suffered an aortic dissection, a life-threatening tear in the body’s main artery. Now, he wants others to understand how important it is to take high blood pressure seriously.

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