Feel better in 5
Apr 11, 2019
4 minutes
1 MAINTAIN A HEALTHY TICKER
According to the Heart Foundation Australia, heart attacks claimed, on average, 21 lives each day in 2017.
That’s 7813 lives in one year, in Australia alone. Of these, concludes the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute’s recently published ‘No Second Chances’ report, people with diabetes are at greater risk of an acute heart attack (2-4 times more likely) and heart failure (4-6 times more likely).
Regardless as to whether you have a disease or not, heart health is important for everyone. Doctors have long claimed heart attacks occur more frequently in cold weather, and a major Swedish study published in
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