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Cardiac rehab expert Hara Markos explains how staying active can help you lose weight and demonstrates how to do compound exercises like squats, press ups and shoulder presses at home. Try them now.

The Budget’s boost for the NHS to help limit the impact of coronavirus was vital, but much more must be done to protect the nation’s heart health, the BHF says today. The Government’s first Budget was delivered by new Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

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University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

Professor Paolo Madeddu is working out ways to use stem cell-based tissue engineering to help babies born with congenital heart disease. In this project, he will develop a new a new prosthetic graft called a ‘pericyte-engineered’ graft ...

Former England and Arsenal footballer Jack Wilshere is joining forces with us to raise awareness of heart conditions after his daughter underwent lifesaving surgery.

BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse Regina Giblin explains ‘intermittent claudication’, the medical term for pain in the legs when walking. It is a sign of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), also known as peripheral vascular disease (PVD).

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University 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...

The British Heart Foundation has not created its own diet and does not support extreme eating plans. Our senior dietitian shares tips on eating well with foods good for your heart.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Neena Kalia

A heart attack occurs when an artery supplying blood to the heart becomes blocked, starving part of the heart of its blood supply. These arteries are just a few millimetres in diameter, but are large enough to be assessed by the angiogram e...

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