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  • Are open fires and wood-burners bad for your health?

    There are few who don’t enjoy warming up by a fire in winter or sitting around a fire pit outside in the summer. Yet few people know that open fires and wood burners release pollutants into the air known as PM2.5, which can seriously damage your heart and circulatory health.

  • RESEARCH

    Finding preventable causes of heart and circulatory diseases

    University of Cambridge | Professor John Danesh

    Understanding the direct causes of heart and circulatory diseases would help to prevent more people dying from them. However, it can be difficult to distinguish whether something causes a particular disease, or happens to be more common in ...

  • RESEARCH

    How do platelet surface receptors ‘ITAM’ regulate function in health and disease?

    University of Birmingham | Professor Stephen P Watson

    BHF Professor Stephen Watson from the University of Birmingham has been awarded a five year grant totalling almost £1.5million to look at the effects of tiny cells called platelets in our circulation. We know that platelets ‘plug’ a site of...

  • RESEARCH

    Protein kinase G, oxidants and high blood pressure

    King's College London | Professor Philip Eaton

    High blood pressure, or hypertension, puts a strain on the arteries and the heart. As high blood pressure often has no obvious symptoms, many people do not know they have the condition until their blood pressure is measured in a doctor’s su...

  • EVENT

    Kilomathon Scotland 13.1K
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    Date

    4 April 2027

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    Location

    Edinburgh

    Kilomathon takes place in Edinburgh and is run on the beautiful Edinburgh cycle path network. Choose from 13.1K and 6.5K distances

    Kilomathon

  • RESEARCH

    Testing innovative image-analysis to spot high-risk coronary arteries

    University of Cambridge | Professor Martin Bennett

    Atherosclerosis occurs when fatty deposits, known as plaques, form in the walls of our blood vessels, such as the coronary supplying the heart. Some of these plaques can rupture and create a blood clot, which can cause a heart attack. Card...

  • RESEARCH

    Studying the role of microRNAs in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    King's College London | Dr Seda Eminaga

    A common cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young people is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). HCM occurs when cells in the heart muscle increase in size. Eventually they can cause the walls of the two cavities in the heart – known as the ve...

  • Gene discovery with potential to prevent complications for diabetes

    A team of scientists we fund at Queen’s University, Belfast, have discovered a gene that increases the risk of blood vessel damage in people with diabetes.

  • PUBLICATION

    Health at Work pedometer challenge - rules and safety

    Information Sheet, 2 pages, published on 20/12/2012

    These rules and safety tips will help you set up a workplace pedometer challenge. This editable resources will make sure participants understand the challenge and give them some safety tips while they're taking part.

    This publication is only available to download or view online

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  • Could statins be the reason for my lack of libido?

    Our expert answers a question on the relation between the side effect of statins and a lack of sex drive.

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