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BHF appoints Prof Bryan Williams as Chief Scientific and Medical Officer
We have appointed distinguished research leader and NHS Consultant Physician, Professor Bryan Williams, as our first Chief Scientific and Medical Officer.
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Finding new ways to restore blood flow after strokeUniversity of Oxford | Dr Paolo Tammaro
A stroke can occur when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in your brain. Doctors can remove the clot, but sometimes, even after the clot has been removed, the blood still may not flow properly into the brain blood vessels (this is called t...
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Understanding how a genetic fault leads to blocked arteriesUniversity College London | Professor Ian C Zachary
Scientists have previously discovered that changes to the Bcar1 gene are linked to the development of atherosclerosis – the build-up of fatty deposits in blood vessels. But little is currently known about how these genetic changes cause th...
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Gestational diabetes: understanding why foetal blood vessels become damaged and if sulforaphane can help?King's College London | Professor Giovanni Mann
It is increasingly common for mothers to develop diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes). If blood glucose levels remain high, damage to blood vessels in both mother and child, results. Understanding whether blood vessels can be pr...
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Understanding kugeln, a new avenue of research in stroke and dementiaUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Tim Chico
Sheffield researchers are investigating an intriguing phenomenon they discovered in blood vessels in the brain. Understanding how blood vessels develop in the brain may help us to find ways to tackle diseases including stroke and dementi...
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The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum
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Using machine-learning for personalised risk prediction of heart and circulatory diseaseUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Heart and circulatory disease causes more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK. In GP practices around the country, people over the age of 40 have their risk factors measured to estimate how likely they are to develop heart and circulator...
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Why and how do vascular ‘risk genes’ actually increase heart disease risk?University of Oxford | Professor Hugh Watkins
Genetic studies of large groups of people have identified changes in certain parts of their DNA that are more frequently found in people with coronary heart disease. Many of these changes are in regions of DNA that influence the walls of ou...
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Channel 4 to air 24 Hours in A&E: Heart Special
Three people who have had serious heart and circulatory conditions are to be the focus of a new 24 Hours in A&E: Heart Special, in partnership with us.
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Tobacco measures headline King’s Speech
The King's Speech outlined the Government's commitment to creating a smokefree generation and addressing NHS workforce challenges.