Newcastle Has A Change Of Heart Newcastle has recorded some of the Australia s most significant reductions in heart attack rates. Professor Dobson undertook the WHO research in Newcastle, because of the region s previously poor record on heart attacks. Locally a lot of the improvement can be attributed to Hunter Health s work in establishing sophisticated health facilities, the John Hunter tertiary hospital and a reduction in traditional risk factors. Professor Dobson said that while a lot of progress had been made, there was still a long way to go before Australia and Newcastle reached the low-risk levels of countries like Japan, China and Italy.
Obesity is a major problem, with the Australian weight problem continuing to creep up.
If we aren t careful we could lose many of the gains we have made in the past decade.