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Hear a personal experience of growing up with a heart condition and transitioning to adult services.

Alex Michael, star of hit TV series, Gogglebox, will join around 1,000 people on our London to Brighton trek over 25 - 26 June. The Brighton-based reality TV star has 30 hours to complete the challenge as she helps raise vital funds for our life saving research.

We have set out proposals to protect our life saving work in response to a devastating fall in income caused by the coronavirus crisis.

February is Heart Month and this year we’re urging people to take at least 10 minutes a day to help improve their own heart health as well as support our annual fundraiser, Wear it. Beat it.

An article in a national newspaper has criticised a number of UK charities, including the BHF, for not spending enough income on charitable activities. We believe the article gives a distorted view of how we spend your donations, which help fund over half of heart research at UK universities. Read our full response to the story here.

RESEARCH

University College London | Professor John E Deanfield

Inflammation can cause changes to arteries and blood that increase the risk of heart and circulatory diseases in later life. Some teenagers and young adults already show signs of these changes, but why this happens isn’t fully understood. ...

Football fans from Luton Town and AFC Bournemouth joined forces with the British Heart Foundation to raise awareness of CPR and funds for lifesaving heart research at their rescheduled game that was abandoned after Tom Lockyer’s cardiac arrest.

Can eating extra salt really reduce your life expectancy? We look behind the headlines of recent newspaper reports claiming that adding salt to food after cooking increases risk of an early death.

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Professor Paul Leeson

Professor Paul Leeson at the University of Oxford has been awarded a Senior Clinical Research Fellowship to investigate how early life influences, like being born prematurely, could affect heart health later on in life. Professor Leeson...

Bored with breakfast? Senior Dietitian Victoria Taylor presents five quick and easy ideas to make you fall in love with your morning meal.