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Exercise is very important for your heart health. Learn how you can motivate yourself to exercise by overcoming common barriers.

Vitamin D is essential for bone and muscle health. BHF Senior Dietitian Dell Stanford explains that it comes from your diet and sunlight, but during autumn and winter everyone in the UK should take a 10mcg supplement.

Potassium-rich foods cut risk of strokes and death for older women, according to research.

The British Heart Foundation, alongside 11 leading research funders around the world, is inviting researchers to compete in a new research challenge to address women’s cardiovascular health.

Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a genetic condition where your liver cannot process cholesterol properly, causing high cholesterol levels. Read more to learn about what causes it, diagnosis and how to live a healthy life with it.

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is calling on the public to donate their quality unwanted Christmas gifts to help fund lifesaving research into heart and circulatory diseases.

Scientists we funded at the University of Reading are to investigate whether a targetted antioxidant drug could be used to prevent heart attacks.

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University of Cambridge | Dr Amer Rana

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, causing damage to the right side of the heart. Symptoms include breathlessness or tiredness, and can cause death from heart...

A combination of heart cells derived from human stem cells could be the answer to developing a desperately-needed treatment for heart failure, according to new research we part-funded published in Nature Biotechnology.

Anne Bastick shares her experience of heart valve surgery and explains how her mechanical valve has given her a long and fulfilled life.