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Treatments for abnormal heart rhythms
Get our quick guide to pacemakers, ICDs, and ablations, which are used to treat heart rhythm problems. Find out what the treatments involve and how long they last.
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Anti-inflammatory diet: what you need to know
Discover how your diet can affect inflammation in your body and heart with BHF Senior Dietitian Tracy Parker.
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Learning about silent genes that could help the heart repair itselfUniversity of Oxford | Dr Joaquim Vieira
Damage to the heart muscle caused by a heart attack cannot be repaired. This is because the adult heart has a limited ability to grow new muscle cells. Recently, Dr Vieira has shown that the heart attempts to repair itself after injury by...
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Is there a test to diagnose heart attacks in women?
Our medical expert explains what the high-sensitivity troponin test is and how it could help diagnose women who've had a heart attack.
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Studying the control of NCX1, a potential culprit in heart failureUniversity of Glasgow | Dr William Fuller
To pump blood around the body our heart must contract powerfully, before relaxing to allow it to refill once more. This process involves the synchronised ‘squeeze and release’ of every single heart muscle cell. When this tightly controlled ...
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Providing important evidence for guidelines on limiting sugars in the dietUniversity of Bath | Dr Javier Gonzalez
Government health guidelines recommend limiting the amount of sugar in our diets, but do not include sugars we consume from milk, because we know very little about how they affect blood fat levels. Dr Gonzalez has previously shown that ...
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A toolkit to identify proteins that keep heart cells healthyKeele University | Professor Glenn Morris
Professor Glenn Morris and his colleagues at Keele University are working out which proteins help heart cells to remain healthy, keep beating constantly for many years, and what goes wrong in heart disease. Sometimes people are born with ...
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Investigating Zeb1 as a controller of blood vessel growth and stabilityUniversity of Nottingham | Dr Andrew Benest
Angiogenesis – the process of growing new blood vessels – is important throughout our lives. But it can also contribute to many diseases when it goes wrong, by being too active (cancer) or not active enough (vessel disease). The ability to ...
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New tool to calculate Heart Age is launched
A new online calculate lets users calculate their true heart age.
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Why and how do vascular ‘risk genes’ actually increase heart disease risk?University of Oxford | Professor Hugh Watkins
Genetic studies of large groups of people have identified changes in certain parts of their DNA that are more frequently found in people with coronary heart disease. Many of these changes are in regions of DNA that influence the walls of ou...