Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is a leading cause of disability and death in Australia, despite well-established prevention and treatment strategies. This treatable condition has become harder to manage than it should be, leading to preventable ASCVD events. With all the resources in place, the challenge is to bring them together into a cohesive model of...

The Mito Foundation commissioned the Centre for International Economics to provide this economic evidence about the preventable burden of mitochondrial (mito) disease in Australia to help understand the greatest challenges faced by people with mito, and the opportunities to intervene to make peoples’ lives better.

This is the eighth national report on the 21 Better Cardiac Care measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The level of access for cardiac-related health services is improving for First Nations people. While the mortality rate from cardiac conditions is falling among First Nations people, it is still higher than among non-Indigenous Australians.

Lowitja Institute was engaged to facilitate the needs assessment process to determine the Indigenous-specific priority areas for research into diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In doing this, they have assessed and prioritised the related unmet health and medical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in rural, remote, regional and urban Australia.

This article describes the attributes that have underscored the success of the 45 and Up Study and demonstrate its value by reflecting on two case studies - research on socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease and the harms of smoking.