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The team behind the High STEACS trial wanted to find out whether a test that can detect tiny amounts of a protein called troponin in the blood could help improve heart attack diagnosis and treatment.

Heart imaging techniques already available on the NHS could be used to improve detection of underlying heart disease and treatment following a common but often overlooked type of heart attack, according to research we've funded and published in Circulation.

Having a more complex network of muscle fibres inside the heart can reduce the risk of heart failure according to new research part-funded by the British Heart Foundation.

Professor Hugh Watkins and an international team are developing cures for inherited heart muscle conditions.

Here is a list and an explanation of the reports you should submit to the British Heart Foundation describing the progress of your research as a condition of a grant award.

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Vegetables, seafood and rice combine to create this colourful Spanish-style paella, which is simple to make and tastes great.

A condition once thought to temporarily cause heart failure in people who experience severe stress might actually cause longer-lasting damage to the heart muscle, according to new research that we've funded.

In terms of what the British Heart Foundation funds, the clue is in the name, but there’s more to us than just the heart. Our research delves into all sorts of diseases. Here are a few new projects we’re excited to watch unfold.

From AI technology that can predict heart attacks to a potential new drug for incurable vascular dementia, the BHF has had a great year of scientific discoveries, each bringing us one step closer to making heart and circulatory disease a thing of the past.