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Australian research to help prevent 10 Australians dying of heart attack each day faces a funding shortfall
Researchers at the Heart Research Institute (HRI) are appealing to the public to help fund research that could prevent up to 3,650 Australians dying of heart attack each year.
The research team, led by Professor Roland Stocker, is working on creating a world-first: a novel diagnostic test to help identify and potentially treat people who are at high risk of a heart attack due to the presence of unstable plaque in the arteries.
The underlying cause of a heart attack is a build-up of plaque composed of cholesterol and inflammatory cells on the inside of the arteries.