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A million people in the UK could be living with a serious vascular condition that can lead to leg amputation or a fatal heart attack, experts predict.

For those with mobility issues, chair-based exercise is a great way to build your fitness. Try these 5 easy-to-follow chair exercises.

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.

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.

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

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 Leeds | Professor Christopher Gale

A team in Leeds are using health databases to help doctors improve the long-term care of heart attack survivors. Thanks to advances in medical care for people who’ve had a heart attack, more people than ever are surviving. Yet many go on t...

Read how a heart rhythm problem hasn't stopped Carl Portman's jungle adventures, and watch a video of Carl with his spiders and talking about his ICD.