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Does anxiety put you at greater risk of heart disease and diabetes?
Research in men has suggested that there could be a link between anxiety and a higher risk of heart disease. We look behind the headlines
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A new virtual tool to detect heart patients needing stentsUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Julian Gunn
Supervised by Professor Julian Gunn, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is developing a new computer based tool for doctors to decide which patients with coronary heart disease need stents. In people with coronary heart disease, doc...
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Searching for new treatments to prevent repeat heart attacks or strokesUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Robert Storey
Supervised by Professor Robert Storey, a Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying how to prevent a further heart attack or stroke in people who have already had a heart attack. Platelets are small circulating cells within the blood t...
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New Sheffield research could help to develop preventative treatments for heart disease
Researchers at the University of Sheffield are studying if ‘turning off’ a protein helps to prevent heart attacks & strokes with funding from the British Heart Foundation
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Improving the outcome for patients with chronic Chagas diseaseLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Professor John Kelly
Chagas disease is caused by a small parasite species called Trypanosoma cruzi. This tiny parasite infects millions of people in Latin American regions and there are around 800,000 infected people in Europe. Chagas disease can become a chron...
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New MRI scans to help guide tests for arrhythmiaImperial College London | Dr Jennifer Keegan
Doctors usually investigate and treat alterations in the heart’s rhythm – known as arrhythmias –using electrophysiology (EP). This involves passing flexible electrodes through a blood vessel and carefully placing them at specific positions ...
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Working out how the ERG protein keeps blood vessels healthyImperial College London | Professor Anna Randi
ERG is a protein that controls how several genes are expressed within the endothelial cells that line the inside of blood vessels, enabling them to survive and function properly. Professor Anna Randi at Imperial College London is studying E...
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Can Wnt proteins stop atherosclerotic plaques becoming unstable and rupturing?University of Bristol | Professor Sarah Jane George
Professor Sarah Jane George and her team at the University of Bristol have discovered that a family of proteins called Wnt may be important in keeping fatty atherosclerotic plaques stable. When fatty material builds up on the inner lining o...
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Using artificial brain cells to design a heart pacemakerUniversity of Bath | Professor Alain Nogaret
A healthy person’s heart rate naturally varies slightly as they breathe – increasing with the ‘in’ breath, and slowing with the ‘out’ breath. In heart failure (where the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s demands), this natur...