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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 ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford, part funded by the British Heart Foundation, have identified a new way to regenerate the heart after a heart attack bringing the UK’s half a million heart failure sufferers hope for a cure.

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Imperial College London | Professor Sian Harding

Supervised by Professor Sian Harding, this MBPhD student is working out what causes stress cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome (Takotsubo syndrome). In broken heart syndrome, excess adrenaline after stressful events like bereavemen...

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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...

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Newcastle University | Dr Gavin Richardson

This research aims to investigate how the heart makes new heart muscle in a model of heart disease and answer three main questions: How much can the heart mend itself? Which cells make new heart muscle? What limitations prevent these cells ...

We respond to figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which reveal that people from certain minority ethnic groups are disproportionately at greater risk of dying from Covid-19.

England cricketer James Taylor announces his retirement after being diagnosed with a type of inherited heart condition called arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). The BHF is funding life saving research to improve diagnosis and treatment for conditions like ARVC.

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An early rule-out pathway for heart attack reduces length of stay and hospital admissions according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Paris.