Research to reduce the risk of repeat heart attacks amongst country people is the focus of a wide-ranging partnership project which has been awarded $1.35m in Partnership funding by the NHMRC.
Called CHAP (Country Heart Attack Prevention) the project headed by Professor Robyn Clark aims to boost the rate of Cardiac Rehabilitation in rural and remote areas, with statistics showing only 20-50% of patients attend rehabilitation – a figure that hasn’t budged in 20 years.