Large-scale linked and clinical data to quantify and address gender-based variation in cardiovascular disease risk factors, incidence, care and outcomes

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the single biggest killer and the second greatest source of disability in women in Australia. An experienced multidisciplinary team will draw on seven data sources, including nationally representative surveys, large-scale linked data and detailed clinical datasets. It will quantify outcomes in, and ascertain relative and absolute differences between, women and men, including for: (i) CVD risk factors and prevention of future heart attacks and strokes; (ii) CVD hospital admissions and deaths from different types of CVD, including heart attacks, strokes, heart failure and peripheral vascular disease; (iii) the receipt of CVD procedures in hospital following an acute CVD event including secondary preventative measures; (iv) physical disability, psychological distress and quality of life after a CVD event.