Indigenous cardiac mortality halves
Health ministers' project makes some headway, suggests report
Mortality from cardiac conditions is falling among Indigenous Australians, dropping by 49% over two decades, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reports.
But despite the improvement between 1998 and 2017, Indigenous mortality was still 1.5 times higher than for non-Indigenous people nationally and three times higher in the Northern Territory, the researchers said.
