Ride your heart out!<\/p>\n
Heart Research Australia is honoured to be one of the charity partners for this year\u2019s Bowral Classic.
\nBeing part of this great cycle event is not only a wonderful platform for us to share the important work we do, but also a great opportunity to invite people to join our Team Red and help us support our researchers to find new innovative ways to create more heart survivors.<\/p>\n
Heart Research Australia raises funds for first-stage research into heart disease.\u00a0The road to a world without heart disease is long but every journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And that first step is what we fund.<\/p>\n
As medical research is extremely expensive and time consuming, and funding scarce, the focus of our research program is in testing the ideas. Investment in the first idea, that first step \u2013 saves lives.\u00a0The money the Bowral Classic riders raise for Heart Research Australia we help our researchers look at ways to prevent, diagnose and treat Australia\u2019s number one killer.<\/p>\n
Some current research includes personalised intervention for smokers, protecting pregnant women from heart failure, new treatments for diabetic patients with heart disease and identifying triggers of heart attack.<\/p>\n
Between 1997 and 2004, we helped fund two internationally recognised studies that cut heart-attack deaths at Royal North Shore Hospital from a staggering 30% to a world beating 2%!
\nWe\u2019ve come so far, but there is still so much to be done.<\/p>\n
Heart disease remains the biggest killer of Australians, affecting two out of three Australian families, and is responsible for claiming the lives of four times as many women as breast cancer each year.
\nWith the increasing rate of diabetes and obesity in the community, it is predicted that deaths from heart disease will rise further still, making the need for medical breakthroughs even more urgent.
\nTogether you can cycle towards a world without heart disease!<\/p>\n