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University of Glasgow | Professor Godfrey L Smith

The normal heartbeat is coordinated by electrical impulses which spread rapidly through the heart. During a heart attack a blood vessel in the heart is blocked and the tissue supplied by that vessel may die, becoming replaced by scar tissue...

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There were 12,400 fewer people participating in cardiac rehabilitation programmes during 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic first took hold, as significant numbers of staff were redeployed to meet pressures from the coronavirus pandemic.

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University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole

Supervised by Professor Alastair Poole, a PhD student is studying what keeps platelets - small blood cells that stick together and form clots when you are injured – working normally. Understanding how platelets work will mean that we can f...

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University of Glasgow | Professor Margaret MacLean

More than 2,000 people in the UK have pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), where overactive cell growth in blood vessel walls reduces the space for blood flow in the lungs. Professor Margaret MacLean has been awarded a three-year grant to...

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University of Aberdeen | Dr Dawn Thompson

The development of ‘fatty plaques’ in the blood vessels involves chronic inflammation. Some research efforts to treat plaques or prevent them growing are focusing on this inflammation. However, treatments that dampen down inflammation run ...

A group of ten of BHF colleagues have completed a 1220 mile challenge taking them virtually from London to Lithuania in a bid to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. To mark the momentous last mile of their challenge they were joined by staff and supporters from the Lithuanian Heart Association.

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University of Leeds | Dr Neil Turner

Leeds researchers are uncovering how cardiac fibroblast cells, the cells that help form the structural scaffold of the heart, alter the size and shape of the heart during disease. The heart is made up of several different types of cells. ...