Central Australian Unit
The Central Australian Unit is developing a program of research primarily concerned with exploring the experience of cardiovascular disease among Indigenous Australians. Clinical and commuinity based work is also undertaken by the team as a satellite site for Northern Territory-wide projects in collaboration with MSHR colleagues located in Darwin.
Projects
- Barriers to optimal management of IHD and associated risk factors and co-morbidities for people living in Central Australia. Click here to view project details.
- Predicting heart disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Click here to view project.
- Men, hearts and minds: Exploring the links between psychosocial stress, depression and coronary heart disease in Indigenous men from Central Australia. Click here to view project.
- Comparison of the quality and outcomes of secondary prevention for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous patients after acute coronary syndromes in the Northern Territory. The Central Australian Secondary Prevention of ACS (CASPA) Study. Click here to view project.
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Central Australian Unit