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BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse Regina Giblin explains why you get cold hands and feet in winter and what signs to look out for, like numbness and pale or blotchy skin, that may indicate an underlying health condition.

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University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

Heart failure caused by high blood pressure often results from structural changes in the heart, such as the build-up of scar tissue. This process is called fibrosis and can reduce the capacity of the heart to pump blood efficiently around t...

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University 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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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Federica Marelli Berg

Coronary heart disease (CHD) can be caused by the inappropriate behaviour of T cells—a type of immune cell. Although T cells help us fight infection, sometimes their action on the heart and blood vessels is unwanted. T cells can contr...

Nearly 20,000 people in Scotland will be included in a clinical trial to determine the best clot busting drug treatment for people after they have suffered a heart attack.

We’re among nine organisations who together are awarding more than £70 million funding to Health Data UK (HDR UK) for the next five years.

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University of Sheffield | Dr Heather Wilson

Heart attacks and strokes result from the build-up of fatty plaques within blood vessels, called atherosclerosis. There are specific regions of arteries, such as branch points and curves, that more likely to develop fatty plaques. This is b...

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University College London | Dr Barbara Jefferis

Heart and circulatory disease is one of Britain’s biggest killers, particularly in older people (age older than 70 years). We know that low levels of physical activity and high levels of sedentary behaviour, like long periods of sitting, in...

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Stefan Hoppler

As the heart develops, stem cells are directed to become specialised heart cells by messages from surrounding cells. The heart’s developmental programming depends on a complex network of signals and actions between cells and proteins in the...

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Imperial College London | Dr Josefin Ahnstrom

Blood clotting is regulated by several different pathways, including a pathway that involves a protein called activated protein C, which prevents clotting. To work properly protein C relies on a partner, protein S. People who lack or have a...