Media Releases

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.

The new MOH primary care Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Consensus Statement was launched in February 2018.

Tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure contribute to approximately two million deaths from heart disease and stroke worldwide each year.

With regards to the bequest from Lindo Williams, we at the Heart Foundation are concerned that our approach has been misinterpreted as a desire to secure more funds than Mr Williams intended to donate to the Heart Foundation.

Get off your backside and move around for two minutes every half hour, for the good of your health.

A Heart Foundation grant part-funded the pilot study of a new chest-pain assessment process in rural Waikato, which recently received a Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) award.

The Heart Foundation announced $4.3 million dollars of funding today for heart research and specialist training for New Zealand cardiologists in 2018, bringing the total awarded by the charity since its formation in 1968, to more than $70 million.

The Heart Foundation announced funding today for a nutrition research project to address the high rates of cardiovascular disease and death among Māori in New Zealand, as part of its $4.3 million 2018 funding round.

The Heart Foundation announced funding today, for further development of a vaccine that could see Kiwi kids visiting the doctor for a teaspoon of yoghurt to protect against rheumatic fever-related heart damage or premature death, as part of its $4.3 million 2018 funding round.

Dave Monro, Heart Foundation Food and Nutrition Manager, was recently awarded the Dietitians New Zealand Award of Excellence at the organisation’s 75th Jubilee conference in Auckland.

The Heart Foundation in New Zealand will be the first to light a landmark for World Heart Day this Saturday, 29 September, as they ask the people of New Zealand to make a promise for their individual heart health.

The Heart Foundation’s new Whole grains and the heart evidence paper confirms that eating whole grain foods can reduce your risk of heart disease by up to 30%.