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Heart health can be affected when people suffer from coronary heart disease, including heart attack and angina; heart failure, due to high blood pressure or a damaged heart valve; and in some cases, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
The National Heart Foundation of Australia website has a range of information on heart health.
Reviewed March 2009
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ECG test
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Better Health Channel
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An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a medical test that detects cardiac (heart) abnormalities by measuring the electrical activity generated by the heart as it contracts. The ECG can help diagnose a range of conditions including heart arrhythmias, heart enlargement, heart inflammation (pericarditis or myocarditis) and coronary heart disease. Patients who are taking beta-blocker medication are usually taken off this type of medication the day before an ECG.
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Jun 2009
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Your heart
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Your heart is about the same size as a pear. It sits behind your sternum (which is the bone between the two sides of your ribs) .
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Jun 2009
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Palpitations
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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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Palpitations are an awareness of unusually rapid strong or irregular beating of the heart It is normal for the heart rate to speed up during strenuous exercise and you may feel your heart thumping for
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Mar 2009
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Heart explained
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Better Health Channel
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The functions of the heart are to pump oxygenated blood around the body, and to deliver deoxygenated blood and waste products (carbon dioxide) to the lungs. Disorders of the heart include coronary heart disease, angina, heart attack and heart murmurs. Pericarditis is an inflammation or infection of the pericardium, which is the membrane surrounding the heart.
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Jan 2009
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Aortic stenosis
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Better Health Channel
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Aortic stenosis is the abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve. Symptoms include breathlessness, fainting, coughing at night and pains in the chest (from angina). Treatment includes medications and surgery.
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Nov 2008
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Suspected ischaemic chest pain
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Department of Health Western Australia
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Diagnostic imaging algorithm for patients with suspected ischaemic chest pain.
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Mar 2007
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Echocardiography
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Australian Prescriber
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Technological advances have led to a broader range of indications for echocardiography.
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Oct 2006
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