How about an online portal that helps assist you to recognise your personal heart attack triggers and helps you to take preventive steps during future high-risk periods?

Sounds great, doesn’t it?

Ms Lynne Hunt has just finished a systematic review of multiple studies into the various triggers of heart attacks. In this review, she identified 16 key triggers (such as physical exertion, emotional stress, anger, air pollution, and respiratory infection) associated with heart attack symptom onset.

In this next stage of the project, her aim is to consolidate current knowledge of these triggers. This information will then be used to develop and test an online resource to assist patients in recognising their personal heart attack triggers and help them take preventive steps during future high-risk periods. This online resource will enable patients to modify their behaviour during times of stress, exertion, pollution or other known heart attack triggers, offering practical strategies that can be integrated into their daily lives, helping them reduce their heart attack risk and improve their long-term health outcomes.