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The Heart Foundation today announced $4.2 million dollars of funding for heart research and specialist training for New Zealand cardiologists, bringing the total awarded by the charity since its formation in 1968, to more than $78 million dollars.

The Heart Foundation has today announced funding for a kaupapa Māori action research project to support Māori communities to lead nutrition initiatives to support healthy hearts.

Premature babies and their mothers are at higher risk of developing heart disease, but new research could change New Zealand’s national guidelines for cardiovascular screening for mothers and babies.

The Heart Foundation is proud to support leaders across all areas of medicine in Aotearoa, such as Waikato Hospital staff nurse Edel Schick, whose work will focus on patient education and heart disease prevention at a grass-roots level in the community.

Dr Moritz Lassé, Research Fellow with the Christchurch Heart Institute, a University of Otago Research Centre, has been awarded a Heart Foundation small project grant to help pick up kidney damage after heart failure.

Research into the quality of carbohydrates on our supermarket shelves aims to give New Zealanders clear advice on what foods to enjoy most.

Work towards a vaccine to stop rheumatic fever is “looking more promising”, says Heart Foundation Fellow Dr Jacelyn Loh.

The Heart Foundation today announced $3.7 million of funding for heart research and specialist training for New Zealand cardiologists, bringing the total awarded by the charity since its formation in 1968, to more than $74 million dollars.

Just what New Zealand children are eating isn’t clear and new research aims to find out.

Kiwi researchers are trying to find out how long to give blood-thinning treatments to heart attack survivors.

As part of his PhD, Dr Steve Waqanivavalagi is engineering tissue heart valves in the lab and hopes his new Heart Foundation funding will help make the valves last a patient’s lifetime.

Heart disease is a major killer for people with mental illness and one Wellington doctor is trying to turn this around.