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Time won't mend a broken heart
A sudden and serious heart condition triggered by severe emotional stress can lead to the same type of long-term damage as a heart attack, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Anaheim, California.
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Ensuring future cardiac stem cell therapies work safely and in tandem with patients’ heart cellsUniversity of Surrey | Dr Patrizia Camelliti
Stem cells show great promise for repairing scarred heart tissue after a heart attack. One option for future therapies is to transplant new heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) that have been made from stem cells, onto the damaged area. For ...
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While 100 per cent of profits from collections run by us stay with the charity, the proportion of profits from commercial collections that go to the partner charity can be as low as 5 per cent.
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Could a person’s own cells help to prevent a heart transplant being rejected?King's College London | Professor Giovanna Lombardi
Professor Giovanna Lombardi at King’s College London is studying if white blood cells called regulatory T cells (Tregs), which stop our immune system attacking our healthy cells, could also prevent heart transplants being rejected. Heart ...
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How do pulmonary vessels sense low blood oxygen and what goes wrong in disease?King's College London | Dr Olena Rudyk
Blood vessels that connect the heart with the lungs, the pulmonary arteries, constrict when the amount of oxygen in the body is low (known as hypoxia). In short term hypoxia, this process is important because it directs blood to parts of th...
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Joint funding with the National Institute for Health Research
The BHF co-funds clinical trials with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
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Can allopurinol help people with high blood pressure and left ventricular hypertrophy?University of Dundee | Professor Jacob George
A team from the University of Dundee will conduct a clinical trial in patients with high blood pressure, looking particularly at thickening of the heart muscle (left ventricular hypertrophy). Although high blood pressure can be controlled w...
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Developing a new technique to image blood clots in heart arteriesUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor David Newby
BHF Professor David Newby and his colleagues at the University of Edinburgh are working to develop a new technique that detects blood clots in heart arteries. This will complement their new imaging method that detects dangerous fatty build ...
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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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Warning of lives at risk due to missed heart disease targets
Plans to prevent 150,000 extra heart attacks and strokes within a decade in England are dangerously off track, we've warned in a speech at Westminster Health Forum.