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BHF pays tribute to former Director, Major General Leslie Busk
BHF pays tribute to former Director General, Major General Leslie Busk
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Developing a scanning technique to detect damage after a heart attackUniversity of Edinburgh | Dr Maurits Jansen
Identifying the extent and type of damage to heart tissue after a heart attack is important to help cardiologists decide the best treatment. Rapid and appropriate treatment of heart-attack patients is vital in trying to ensure a successful ...
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Copying a natural repair system to develop new drugs for heart diseaseUniversity of Nottingham | Dr Jeanette Woolard
A molecule called adenosine is released from cells throughout the body to help protect them and repair them when damaged. Scientists hope to develop drugs that mimic how adenosine works to produce similar protective and healing effects. ...
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New risk calculator can help prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with type 2 diabetes
A new risk calculator, developed by BHF-funded researchers, will help to identify people with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk of developing heart and circulatory disease and help them get preventative treatment to ward off future heart attacks and strokes.
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Understanding the importance of white blood cells called monocytes in ANCA vasculitisKing's College London | Dr Michael G Robson
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) vasculitis is a condition where antibodies that usually help fight infection instead trigger the attack of the body’s own immune cells and cause inflammation of the blood vessels. This can cause d...
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Heart failure hospital admissions rise by a third in five years
The number of people being admitted to hospital due to heart failure has risen by a third in the last five years, according to a new analysis by the British Heart Foundation.
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A new method to study thrombosis that uses fewer animalsUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Matthew Harper
Dr Matthew Harper is supervising a PhD student who will develop a new research model to study thrombosis (when blood clots form inside blood vessels) that is less reliant on animals. Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots b...
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Can 3D heart muscle models reveal new ways to treat heart conditions?University of Bristol | Dr Danielle Paul
For our hearts to beat and pump blood around the body, heart muscle needs to contract. Under the microscope, we can see that heart muscle is made up of two sets of filaments – thin and thick – which are made from several different proteins....
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Using a patient’s own cells to treat diabetic circulation problemsUniversity of Leeds | Dr Richard Cubbon
Type 2 diabetes affects more than 1 million people in the UK, most of who are unable to control their blood sugar because they don’t respond to the hormone insulin. This is called ‘insulin resistance’, and can damage blood vessels, leading ...
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Using injectable heart monitors to track abnormal heart rhythms in heart failure patientsUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Roy Gardner
Heart failure is a serious condition that, in 2015, affects nearly half a million people in the UK. We know that many people with heart failure experience abnormal heart rhythms – be that too fast, too slow, and/or irregular – which can be ...