Research

Despite many research breakthroughs, the urgency to beat heart disease and stroke is greater than ever. Every five minutes, someone in Canada still dies from heart disease, stroke or vascular cognitive impairment.

Your support helps fund research that will advance science and inform action that will save lives, enhance diagnosis and recovery, and improve health outcomes. Some of the best-in-class researchers we are supporting in Nova Scotia include:

• Dr. Susan Howlett, who is exploring how to protect heart health in aging women and men.
• Dr. Alexander T. Quinn, who is studying how hypertension (high blood pressure) can affect the heart and cause irregular heart rhythms. 
• Dr. George Robertson, who is studying nanoparticle drug delivery to protect and repair the brain after ischemic stroke (when a blood clot blocks an artery leading to the brain). 

Supporting people with lived experience

Heart & Stroke supports people who are living with heart disease and stroke, including their family and their caregivers, by providing access to evidence-based resources about their conditions and by offering community-focused virtual peer-support groups.

Advocacy and health promotion

Funds raised through Heart & Stroke Nova Scotia TV Bingo support our advocacy work in the province, including protecting youth from the harms of vaping and increasing the number of registered AEDs available in public places.

Join us, and together we’ll beat heart disease, beat stroke and beat as one.