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Preventing heart disease: start young

  • New insights into stroke: Monday 6 December 4pm UK time
  • 2022 – World Healthy Life week: 31st October – 6th November
    • 2021 – World Healthy Life week: 2nd – 6th November
      • World Healthy Life biographies
      • World Healthy Life week: Active transport for better health. Tuesday 2nd November 2021
      • World Healthy Life week. Improving heart health for women: Wednesday 3rd November 2021
      • World Healthy Life week. Exercise for better health: Thursday 4th November 2021
  • Healthy Life Webinars
    • Monday 29 November 2021: Improving outcomes in peripheral vascular disease
    • Monday 16 August 2021: Healthy Life Webinar: The Role of Pharmacists in Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
    • Monday 26 July 2021: Healthy Life Webinar: Updates on Stroke Prevention and Treatment
    • Monday 22 March 2021. Healthy Life Webinar. What to do about atrial fibrillation?
      • Home
    • Monday 25 Jan 2021. Health of world leaders: Winston Churchill’s illnesses
    • Monday 2 November 2020: Healthy Life Day
    • 28 September 2020. Healthy Life Webinar 4. Cardiovascular risk and lipid management: how far do you want to go? 28 September 2020
      • Speaker and discussant biographies – 28.9.20 Lipids webinar
    • 21 August 2020 Healthy Life Webinar 3. What to do about overweight?
    • 20 July 2020 Healthy Life Webinar 2. Why the links between COVID-19 and cardiovascular risk? Clues for reducing disease severity.
    • 22 June 2020 Healthy Life Webinar 1. What to do about high blood pressure? From lifestyle measures to medicines and beyond.
      • Speaker abstracts for webinar on ‘What to do about high blood pressure’: 22 June 2020
        • Healthy Heart Symposia
          • Health Policy for the Heart and Circulation: RIBA, December 2017
          • 4th CVRT Symposium: Diet, Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Risk: from Evidence to Policy – 5 December 2014
            • Speaker Abstracts: 5.12.14 – Diet, lifestyle and cardiovascular risk
            • Programme 5.12.14 – Diet, Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Risk: from Evidence to Policy
          • 3rd CVRT Symposium: Diet, Active Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Health: 5 December, 2013
          • 2nd CVRT Symposium on Cardiovascular Health and Healthy Foods: 8th December, 2011
          • 1st CVRT Symposium on Cardiovascular Health and Exercise: 14 July, 2011
  • How to donate
  • Health and Poetry
    • Hippocrates Young Poets Prize
      • Lyrical beauty: international shortlist announced for Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Enter free for the international £500 Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • The immediacy of illness: the 2020 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Candid elegies: results in the 2018 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Shortlist announced for 2018 International Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Hippocrates Young Poet shortlisted for anorexia-inspired poem Husk
      • 2017 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize to be awarded at Harvard
      • Healthy heart charity the CRT supporting 2017 Hippocrates International Young Poets Award for Poetry and Medicine
      • Poetry and healing: the 2017 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize
      • A love of life: CVRT patrons announce winners of 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet Award for Poetry and Medicine
      • Stories of illness and love of life: shortlist for 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet award for poetry and medicine
    • Healthy Heart Poetry
      • Videos of Healthy Heart Poetry
  • Publications
  • Who we are
    • Trustees
    • Patrons
      • Patron – Tony Ahearne
      • Patron – David Malpas
      • Patron – Leslie Morgan OBE DL
      • Patron – Wade Dimitri FRCS
    • External Advisory Panel
    • International Advisory Board
  • News
    • Monday 2 November 2020: Healthy Life Day
    • Healthy heart charity the CVRT to support the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for a further 3 years
    • ‘Big Data’ to improve development of medicines
    • Developing health policy to protect the heart and circulation
    • Writing to delight and instruct: the Hippocrates Book of the Heart
    • Award to be anounced at Harvard for the 2017 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize
    • Poetry to prevent childhood obesity? The Healthy Heart Poetry Project
    • Wendy French discusses our new initiative: Healthy Heart Poetry for schools
    • School winners of CVRT Healthy Heart Awards
    • New target in search for why statin drugs may cause problems for some patients
  • Healthy Life Updates

Healthy Heart: Start Young

The aim of Healthy Heart: Start Young is to encourage interest among children of all ages in lifestyle that helps to keep the heart healthy.

The CVRT is engaging in this important initiative in 3 main ways:

  • Healthy Heart Awards
  • Healthy Heart Poetry
  • Healthy Heart Policy

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