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Gene links female body shape to risk of type 2 diabetes
Scientists part-funded by us at King’s College London have identified a gene that in women is linked to the creation and location of new fat cells and is thought to contribute to a person's risk of type 2 diabetes.
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Using high tech imaging to understand the lifelong cardiac effects of being born with a heart defectImperial College London | Dr Sonya Babu Narayan
Every day in the UK, 12 babies are diagnosed with heart defects, known collectively as congenital heart disease. Thanks to research across recent decades, around eight in 10 people born with a heart defect now survive to adulthood. However,...
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Accelerator award at the University of BristolUniversity of Bristol | Professor Deborah Anne Lawlor
BHF-funded research is behind many of the advances that are helping people with heart and circulatory diseases to live longer, better lives. By investing in research we are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, ...
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Booklets & guides
We produce hundreds of free publications, leaflets, DVDs and more for heart patients, their families and people who want to learn more about living healthily.
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Searching for a treatment to combat over-contraction of the heart in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Oxford | Professor Charles Redwood
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited disease of the heart muscle. It’s generally caused by genetic faults affecting the filaments that contract each muscle cell to create the heart’s pumping action. Professor Charles Redwood an...
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Using artificial intelligence to treat pulmonary hypertension
We’re funding research to develop artificial intelligence tools to better diagnose pulmonary hypertension and to predict how the condition will progress.
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Understanding how PDE3A proteins function in the heart could lead to new treatments for heart failureUniversity of Oxford | Professor Manuela Zaccolo
Professor Manuela Zaccolo is studying heart failure, where the heart is unable to pump hard enough to deliver enough blood around the body and for which there is currently no cure. Some of the drugs used to treat heart failure work by bl...
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Cross-Party Group Inquiry into the implementation of the Heart Disease Action Plan
The Cross-Party Group on Heart and Circulatory Diseases has come together to undertake an inquiry into the Scottish Government's Heart Disease Action Plan.
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Over 23 million UK adults haven’t learnt the lifesaving skill of CPR
Nearly half of UK adults (43 per cent) have never learnt CPR, according to new figures we’ve released today. The nationally representative survey suggests as many as 23 million are yet to learn the skills to save a life.
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Professor Steffen Petersen to become interim Director of the BHF Data Science Centre
Professor Petersen is to become interim Director of the BHF Data Science Centre, taking over from founding Director Professor Cathie Sudlow who is stepping down to lead a major new population study exploring the adolescent health.