Help, facts & lifestyle advice
Ethnicity and heart disease
Your ethnicity can affect your risk of heart disease. Find out how you can reduce that risk.
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Events, fundraising & campaigning
Cycle Clock2Rock
Join us on our inaugural Clock2Rock bike ride and cycle from London to Gibraltar for the adventure of a lifetime.
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Walk, ride, run or swim to help raise vital funds for us. And find out about our new cycling events...
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High street & online shopping
A taste of Britain
Our Everyday British recipe book gives a healthy twist to those traditional British meals
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We'll collect your unwanted furniture and electrical goods to sell in our stores.
The heart research you fund
£2 million to keep hearts beating
Your donations have raised over £2 million for new Professor Kinya Otsu's research into stopping heart cells dying.
Life-saving heart research
We invest in world-class research into heart disease. Find out how far we've come in 50 years, and how far we still have to go.
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Connect & share experiences
We're working with UK towns and cities to get communities heart healthy.
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Share experiences, stories, tips and ideas in our community.
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Who we are & our mission
Explore 50 years of the fight against heart disease, and find out where we're going in the future.
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From shops to events, Heart Nurses to Professors, find something near you on our map.
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Meet our researchers
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We support the best researchers in the UK, at all levels.
Leading figures in heart research receive our most coveted award, becoming BHF Chairs.
They represent the best of the best, so come and meet our professors.
Find out what our researchers have been up to lately:
A team from London found that despite their bad reputation, oxidants can help keep blood pressure under control.
Scientists in Leeds made a discovery that could change treatment for many heart patients in the future.
Bristol researchers are looking at a 'gene therapy' to tackle diabetic heart failure.
A group in Glasgow showed a Christmas walk is good for you.
Doctors in Cambridge developed a new test for some patients with high blood pressure.
We support the best
researchers in the UK, at all levels.