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AREEA joins fight against women’s heart disease

AREEA Director Workplace Relations Amanda Mansini at the Business Women Champions at Heart launch.

Australian Resources and Energy Group AREEA has joined the business community in a new initiative seeking to raise awareness about women’s heart disease.

AREEA Director Workplace Relations Amanda Mansini was last week proud to be named among the nation’s first network of senior businesswomen dedicated to raising awareness about heart disease in women.

Ms Mansini joins “Business Women Champions of the Heart” – a partnership with the Heart Foundation and Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The network comprises 16 senior female leaders of industry associations and business chambers from across Australia.

They will support efforts to educate the community about heart disease in women as ambassadors of the Heart Foundation.

“As an ambassador for the Heart Foundation, I’m very much looking forward to generating further awareness on heart disease in women,” she said.

“Heart disease is often categorised as a men’s problem and I’m looking forward to spreading the word and dispelling that myth, and in the process help reduce the number of lives being lost to heart disease.”

“This is an awful disease – the greatest killer of women in Australia, with 22 women in our country dying from heart disease each day, killing almost three times as many women as breast cancer.”

Adjunct Professor John Kelly AM, Chief Executive Officer – National of the Heart Foundation, said heart attack symptoms in women may be different from the classic ‘chest pain’ often seen on TV.

“Women may experience subtle symptoms, with chest pain not always present. Symptoms may include pain in the jaw, back or neck,” he said.

“They can also have shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting and cold sweats, overwhelming fatigue or anxiety, lethargy and loss of appetite.”

Businesswoman, urbanist and philanthropist Lucy Turnbull AO is the Patron of Business Women Champions of the Heart.

To find out more about women and heart disease, click here.

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