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    Vitamin K and cardiovascular health in people with chronic kidney disease

    University of Dundee | Professor Miles D Witham

    Kidney disease causes a layer of calcium to settle in the wall of blood vessels, making them stiff, which increases blood pressure and the strain on the heart. People with kidney disease have a high risk of heart attack and stroke. Current ...

  • BHF Chair Wendy Becker to step down

    Our Chair, Wendy Becker, will be stepping down from our Board of Trustees as she takes up a Non-Executive Director role at the world-leading pharmaceutical company, GSK.

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    Refining promising techniques for guiding catheter ablation to stop atrial fibrillation

    University of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng

    Nearly 1.3 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with Atrial fibrillation (AF), making it the most common heart rhythm disturbance. Symptoms include irregular heartbeats, light-headedness and fatigue, affecting people’s quality of li...

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    PKCα: a potential new target to prevent artery calcification

    University of Manchester | Professor Keith Brennan

    Vascular calcification occurs when bone-like deposits build-up in the arteries, causing them to stiffen and narrow. This is a common complication of people with atherosclerosis or kidney disease and can lead to high blood pressure, heart at...

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    Encouraging people to eat healthier foods using a virtual supermarket

    University of Oxford | Dr Peter Scarborough

    Eating healthily helps protect against heart and circulatory disease, but currently, people in the UK are not meeting dietary recommendations. We know food prices help people choose which foods to buy, and some countries tax unhealthy foods...

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    Halting inflammation after a heart attack to prevent heart failure

    University of Leeds | Dr Azhar Maqbool

    After a heart attack, inflammation plays an important role in the healing and repair process that follows. However, long term inflammation can lead to changes in the way the heart is structured, a process called cardiac remodelling, which...

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    Looking for new ways to treat high blood pressure

    University of Oxford | Professor David Paterson

    High blood pressure is a risk factor for heart disease, but many people with high blood pressure are not receiving treatment for it. Understanding how high blood pressure develops may reveal new ways to treat it and reduce people’s risk of ...

  • Heart care waiting list 50% higher than before the pandemic in England

    Latest NHS England figures published today show that the number of people on cardiac waiting lists grew to a record 349,090 at the end of September in England.

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    Testing a simple way to get more teenagers active

    Swansea University | Professor Sinead Brophy

    Professor Sinead Brophy and her colleagues at the University of Swansea, in partnership with a local council, are finding out if a simple activity voucher system could help teenagers get active and improve their heart health. Regular exe...

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    Understanding how oxidation of a protein called PKGI-alpha regulates the heartbeat

    University of Manchester | Dr Luigi Venetucci

    Each heartbeat consists of two phases: systole and diastole. During systole, heart muscle cells – cardiomyocytes – in the lower chambers of the heart contract (shorten) to pump blood out of the heart. During diastole, these lower chamber ca...