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Making prevention a priority: One year on from the Prevention Green Paper
The Government needs to set out comprehensive roadmaps to make prevention a priority.
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Can a new drug protect the heart from damage caused by a heart attack?University of Glasgow | Dr William Fuller
Dr William Fuller and colleagues at the University of Dundee are studying new ways to protect heart muscle tissue from injury after a heart attack. When blood vessels become blocked, such as during a heart attack, the amount of oxygen d...
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Is it normal to get shortness of breath after a heart attack?
Find out what to do if you are experiencing shortness of breath following a heart attack.
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Developing a new method to identify people at increased risk of a heart attackKing's College London | Professor Rene Botnar
Atherosclerosis – the build-up of fatty plaques inside artery walls - is associated with an increased risk of a heart attacks or strokes. If these plaques rupture, they can cause a blood clot to form and block the blood supply to parts of t...
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Developing a new imaging method to detect heart damage after a heart attackUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Colin Berry
Supervised by Professor Colin Berry, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is developing a new scanning technique that measures the heart’s pumping ability. This is important after a heart attack as heart pump function can help predict pro...
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Gestational diabetes: understanding why foetal blood vessels become damaged and if sulforaphane can help?King's College London | Professor Giovanni Mann
It is increasingly common for mothers to develop diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes). If blood glucose levels remain high, damage to blood vessels in both mother and child, results. Understanding whether blood vessels can be pr...
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Understanding the ‘alter egos’ of BH4, towards new treatments for heart diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Professor Keith Channon
The health of our heart and blood vessels depends upon cells in these tissues producing and responding to an abundance of chemical signals. One chemical factor, called tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), has important roles in heart and circulatory ...