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Twenty-one charity partners to take part in London to Brighton Bike Ride
Following a successful first-of-its-kind trial, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) are thrilled to announce 21 charity partners will be taking part in their 2023 London to Brighton Bike Ride.
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Defibrillator cash in Wales dependent on registration on The Circuit
The Head of the BHF in Wales has welcomed a commitment by the Welsh Government to pledge half a million pounds of additional funding to improve community access to defibrillators.
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Scientists to investigate cause of heart defects in children
Scientists at the University of Oxford will try to identify new reasons why children are born with heart defects. Dr Duncan Sparrow has been awarded £941,000 by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to set up a research team to determine how environmental factors can cause abnormalities in how the heart develops.
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"Some days even walking up the stairs can be difficult with my atrial fibrillation"
"My heart rate went from 120 to 180 in seconds. I rubbed my hands together and tried the heart monitors again - I thought they were broken rather than something was happening with my heart,” Mike explains.
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Smoking and diabetes are biggest risk factors for peripheral artery disease
Smoking and diabetes are the two leading risk factors for peripheral artery disease (PAD), a narrowing of the arteries which can lead to limb amputation
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Can potassium-rich foods lower your blood pressure and keep your heart healthy?
Can eating avocados, bananas and salmon lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk of heart attacks and strokes? And does this really only apply to women? We look behind the headlines and give our verdict.
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PureGym raises £1 million pounds for heart research
PureGym, the UK’s favourite gym chain, has raised an astonishing £1 million for our lifesaving research into heart and circulatory diseases.
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Fixing the volume switch in heart failure – targeting the control of noradrenaline releaseUniversity of Oxford | Professor David Paterson
Injury to the heart muscle caused by a heart attack or high blood pressure can lead to heart failure, where it lacks the power to pump blood around the body efficiently. This is also associated with an increase in the release of a chemical ...
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Studying how the mechanical stress of the heartbeat could affect ion channel proteinsUniversity of Oxford | Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan
Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan from the University of Oxford has received three years’ BHF funding to study what processes are going on in the heart which enable it to act as a strong mechanical force, pumping oxygenated blood around the body...
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Understanding the biology of bleeding disordersUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Neil Morgan
Platelets are small cells that help the blood to clot after an injury and prevent excessive bleeding. Some people inherit a disorder called thrombocytopenia, where they have a low number of platelets and abnormal bleeding. Dr Morgan has...