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My Heart Check is a free, online heart health check. It uses your personal risk factors to assess your heart age and gives you tips for reducing risk.
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Our purpose: to stop all people in New Zealand dying prematurely from heart disease and enable people with heart disease to live full lives
That's more than one in 23 adults [1]
It is the leading cause of death in New Zealand and includes heart, stroke and blood vessel disease [2]
Many of these deaths are premature and preventable [2]
News & Stories
“I’m very lucky to be alive”
Pete’s dangerously high blood pressure went unnoticed — until it nearly killed him. At just 44, he suffered an aortic dissection, a life-threatening tear in the body’s main artery. Now, he wants others to understand how important it is to take high blood pressure seriously.
Heart Foundation launches blood pressure awareness campaign to save lives
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects a million New Zealanders and is the single biggest risk factor for New Zealand’s biggest killer - heart disease.