Episode 586: MJA Podcasts 2025 Episode 15: Re-thinking coronary heart disease

The likelihood of a man or woman dying of coronary heart disease is much less than it was half a century ago with better treatments and a reduction in smoking. However, as our special guests will explain today, the overall burden of coronary disease continues to grow and it still remains the single leading cause of death in Australia. Professor Will Parsonage is Clinical Director at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation and Senior Staff Cardiologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and St Vincent's Private Hospital. Associate Professor Sarah Zaman is an Academic Interventional Cardiologist at Westmead Hospital and the University of Sydney. They are co authors on the The Lancet Commission on rethinking coronary artery disease and they have written about it for the MJA’s InSight+ and they join me now.

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Episode 586: MJA Podcasts 2025 Episode 15: Re-thinking coronary heart disease is an episode from The Medical Journal of Australia by theMJA.

This episode is 24:59 long.

This episode was published on Aug 3, 2025.

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