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Rudi Maxwell

In a heartbeat: smart watches helping to close the gap

Aunty Mary Waites has a message for her fellow Indigenous Australians - get your heart tested. (HANDOUT/HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE)

When Aunty Mary Waites joined a research trial aimed at helping to reduce the risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, she saved her husband's life.

When Aunty Mary, a Ngemba woman from Brewarrina in western NSW, had her blood pressure checked by the local Aboriginal Medical Service, as part of the study, it prompted her husband Lindsay to do the same.

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