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Keep your heart health in-check

EVERY 30 minutes, one Australian loses their life to heart disease.

This frightening statistic is enough to jump-start us all into thinking about our heart health.

It takes 30 minutes or less to conduct a heart health check and just three simple steps to help keep our hearts healthy.

Heart Week is Australia’s national heart health awareness campaign held in the first week of May each year.

It provides an opportunity for health professionals and the Australian public to start a conversation about heart health and take positive steps to reduce heart disease risk.

For this year’s Heart Week, all Australians are being encouraged to do three simple things to look after their heart – check their blood pressure, use the Heart Age Calculator to understand their risk of heart disease, and book a Heart Health Check with their GP.

For more specialised treatment and advice, the Jayne Graves and her team at Otway Heart Cardiology Services can help.

With a clinic in the heart of Port Fairy, Otway Heart can perform a wide range of specialised tests including ECG, stress echocardiogram and 24-hour heart rate monitor tests.

A GP referral is required for an appointment. l Do you have a business focusing on health and wellbeing?