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University of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell

Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, is a serious condition where the small arteries inside the lungs become narrow. This puts a strain on the heart, which has to pump harder to force the blood supply through these narrowed lung vessels...

Chemotherapy can be used to cure cancer, to relieve its symptoms or to reduce the risk of cancer re-occurring, but in high doses it can damage the heart.

Obesity poses a grave threat to our national health and wealth. As one in four adults lives with obesity we know that millions of people are at increased risk of heart and circulatory diseases right now, and that comes with an estimated annual cost to the economy of £58bn.

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University of Manchester | Professor Maciej Tomaszewski

Professor Maciej Tomaszewski and his team at the University of Manchester are working out why men are more likely to develop heart disease, particularly whether this is because they have inherited genes that predispose them to heart disease...

Hundreds of thousands of people across the UK are living with a silent, undetected threat in their hearts. That hidden danger is a heart rhythm disorder known as atrial fibrillation (AF). AF is not life-threatening, but it can cause adverse symptoms and lead to a poorer quality of life.

Our research has increased the survival and quality of life of people leaving with pulmonary hypertension.

Cara Trivett studies a gene which can increase your heart size. Find out what a day in the lab looks like for her.

Find out how James Hall got back to the job he loves after he had a stroke and became partially sighted overnight.

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University of Oxford | Dr Adam Lewandowski

Dr Adam Lewandowski’s research focuses on studying heart health in babies that are born prematurely. He has previously shown that there are differences in the structure and function of the heart in babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy c...