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Show your big heart and support research at the Heart Foundation Big Heart Appeal street collection, on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 February 2021.

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The congenital heart condition, Holt-Oram syndrome, comes with challenges. For Keith, it has meant life-long medication, a number of pacemaker operations and more recently a heart transplant. But Keith has never let the syndrome rule his life.

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University of Auckland academics have developed new equations to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (mainly heart attacks and strokes) in New Zealanders that has just been published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.

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During her 20-year journey with heart disease, Fran has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery and five stents. She explains why heart disease has given her a ‘seize the day’ attitude.

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Luke Cairns’ wife and three young children could easily have spent Christmas 2014 without a husband and father.

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Almost ten years ago, Maggie had a heart attack completely out of the blue. As a fairly healthy and fit woman, she never saw it coming.

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At just 35 years old, Tanya’s busy life as a mother of two little boys was turned upside down by some seriously worrying symptoms. Her heart was beating much faster than it should have been and often palpitating out of time.

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

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As a former coronary care nurse, Annie had taught people in cardiac rehabilitation how to recognise symptoms of angina. Ten years ago, she had the chance to apply her knowledge personally.

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This June the Heart Foundation is putting a spotlight on men’s heart health by asking men to get proactive and take care of their heart health to be around for their loved ones.

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Two years ago, Deb Leslie suffered a horrific heart attack which left her strewn across the table in a busy Wellington food court.

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As a result of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and rheumatic fever, Connie has heart failure and valve problems, but she’s determined her heart conditions won’t stop her doing the things she loves.

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