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A 2020 Heart Foundation-funded research project investigating a new treatment strategy for heart failure patients is showing exciting early results. Now we’re funding a new project to see if the same strategy could be used to prevent people going into heart failure in the first place.

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Understanding the increased risk of heart disease faced by premature babies and their mothers, how heart valve disease progresses from mild to severe symptoms, and exploring heart failure disparities for Māori and Pacific people are just three of the projects awarded funding by the Heart Foundation today, World Heart Day.

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Kerri thought her breathlessness was asthma, so to be told she had heart failure and needed valve surgery was quite a shock.

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Sri felt really scared when she was told her rheumatic heart disease and valve problems had led to heart failure. However, she’s found that sharing her story and hearing how others have coped have been key to emotional wellbeing.

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Pita says the atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart attack he suffered in 2015 were a ‘fax sent from God.’ Now he’s making lifestyle changes and taking his medication. This is his story in his own words.

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Once an avid triathlete and social worker, Christine went from a diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis and heart failure to a life-saving heart transplant. She now embraces new challenges like the Transplant Games, showing how through it all she continues to maintain her active spirit.

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Senior Research Fellow Dr Anna Pilbrow has been awarded the Heart Foundation’s inaugural Foundation100 Fellowship. Her two-year research project will investigate the use of DNA and genetics to identify people at risk of heart attacks and heart failure.

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After more than 15 years of postponing surgery for his aortic stenosis and aortic aneurysm, Jennifer’s husband collapsed in the hallway one evening after returning from a night out. When he came to, Jennifer had to beg him to let the ambulance staff take him to the hospital. The following…

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Patrick could not believe he had heart failure – he was working well and feeling well. “I didn’t really think there was that much wrong with me, but they assured me there was.”

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Barry, now 75, had always been a keen sportsman in his youth and was not aware of any family members with a history of heart disease. After visiting his doctor he made a shocking discovery that meant he required heart surgery.

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When Brenda was born, her parents were told she probably wouldn’t live to the age of five. She is now 61 and still doing things her way.

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Dr Nicola Scott will be researching how inhibiting the heart enzyme PDE9 may reduce damage following a heart attack and could also lead to a potential new treatment for heart failure.

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