The Research Behind Prevention

Australians lost 5.8 million years of healthy life in 2024, and more than a third of that burden was preventable.

Screening participants diagnosed with bowel cancer had a lower risk of dying from it, and modelling suggests wider participation could cut deaths by up to 59%.

Almost 4 in 10 Australians, 9.7 million people, were living with two or more chronic conditions at once in 2022.

In a study of over 122,000 adults, higher fitness kept lowering death risk with no ceiling, the fittest group had the lowest mortality of any group measured.

The Heart Foundation says a calcium score of zero can reclassify someone to low cardiovascular risk, while a high score can reclassify them to high risk, directly changing how they're managed.

Across 13 studies and over 13,000 people, a DNA methylation-based epigenetic age older than your actual age predicted a higher risk of death, independent of traditional risk factors.