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NewsHeart Foundation Tasmania reveals heart condition hotspotsBy Emily BakerUpdated August 17 2016 - 4:55pm, first published August 16 2016 - 10:03amBy Emily BakerUpdated August 17 2016 -
4:55pm, first published August 16 2016 - 10:03amFacebookTwitterWhatsappEmailCopyHeart Foundation maps disease hotspots The Heart Foundation has released new data revealing Tasmanian hotspots
for heart-related hospital admissions.
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areas of West Coast, Derwent Valley, George Town, Tasman and Break O’Day took the top five spots, with at least 59 heart-related hospital admissions per 10,000 people.
Heart Foundation chief executive Graeme Lynch said the map revealed strong links between socioeconomic disadvantage and high hospital admission rates.
“We now know that residents living in the West Coast and Derwent Valley local government areas are admitted to hospital for a heart condition at a rate more than double that of people living
in the Meander Valley, West Tamar and Hobart local government areas,” he said.
“We need to help Tasmanians become more physically active, improve the availability of and their access to healthy food, and for them to become smoke free.”
Risk factors of heart disease include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, insufficient physical activity and being overweight or obese.
Tasmania fared worse than Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia in the mapping exercise.
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