Phase 1: Education
Supporting clinicians and patients to recognise the critical link between sleep and heart health.
Help protect hearts by treating hidden sleep disorders
Your support helps detect and treat hidden sleep disorders, protecting heart health, reducing hospital admissions, and saving lives before crisis strikes.
Our goal
$3,070,000
Raised
$70
To go
$3,069,930
Support earlier detection to protect heart health
Healthy Sleep for Healthy Hearts is a world‑leading research program focused on identifying and treating hidden sleep disorders to reduce cardiovascular risk. Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is strongly linked to heart attack, stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation, yet more than 80% of people with moderate to severe OSA remain undiagnosed – including many already living with heart disease.
Sleep plays a fundamental role in wellbeing and influences every dimension of life, yet its impact on heart health remains under‑recognised. Healthy Sleep for Healthy Hearts integrates education, screening and personalised treatment into routine cardiac care, ensuring sleep disorders are identified early and treated effectively.
With your support, we can bring this hidden risk to light – and save lives.
A hidden threat to heart health
Despite decades of evidence, sleep disorders remain one of the most under‑recognised drivers of cardiovascular disease, leaving preventable risks undetected until serious events occur.
1 in 10 Australians
has obstructive sleep apnoea - more than 80% remain undiagnosed.
1 in 4 Australians
dies from cardiovascular disease.
Up to 90% of people with heart failure
are affected by sleep apnoea.
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Urgency: Why now?
Left untreated, obstructive sleep apnoea damages blood vessels, increases inflammation and sharply raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. For many people, this damage builds quietly over years, increasing hospital admissions, healthcare costs and premature loss of healthy life years.
“The cardiac burden on hospitals is huge. People keep coming back for care and sleep health is often part of the missing picture.”
– Dr Glenn Stewart, Senior Research Fellow, Royal North Shore Hospital
A new model of cardiac care
Healthy Sleep for Healthy Hearts embeds personalised, home‑based screening and treatment into routine cardiac practice through three integrated phases:
Phase 2: Home-based Screening
Using advanced wearable technology to identify sleep apnoea safely and conveniently at home.
Phase 3: Personalised Treatment
Matching the right treatment to the right patient - and supporting long-term success.
Healthy Sleep for Healthy Hearts has the potential to transform cardiac care by enabling earlier detection of sleep apnoea in high‑risk patients, reducing hospital admissions and improving long‑term heart health.
Your support will help bring this innovative model into everyday cardiac care – with potential to scale nationally.
“The challenge is matching the right patient to the right treatment and helping them use it successfully.”
— Dr Anna Mohammadieh, Respiratory and Sleep Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital
Be part of this breakthrough moment
Together, we can give the world healthier sleep and healthier hearts. Your support helps translate decades of sleep science into real‑world improvements in cardiac care and patient outcomes.
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