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The best and worst foods for high blood pressure
BHF Senior Dietitian Victoria Taylor explains how choosing to eat fruits, vegetables and wholegrains can help if you have high blood pressure.
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Working with top Israeli researchers to harness the heart’s ability to repair itselfUniversity of Oxford | Professor Paul Riley
A heart attack can cause irreparable damage making the heart less able to pump blood around the body. This is called heart failure and it affects hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. In 2011 BHF Professor Paul Riley and his colleag...
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Finding out the best ways to treat high blood pressure
High blood pressure affects 1 in 3 people in the UK and increases your risk of having a heart attack or stroke. We’ve been funding research to find out the best ways to treat high blood pressure.
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BHF reveal that the majority of Brits are stuck in their comfort zone and daily routines
Over half of Brits don’t venture outside of their comfort zones and almost half (45%) fear that one day they might live to regret it, according to new statistics released by the BHF.
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Wetherby Fundraising Group to deliver CPR training in the community
Find out how our Wetherby Fundraising Group fundraised for the BHF during the Covid-19 pandemic and are now looking forward to delivering CPR training in their local community.
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How to lower your cholesterol - food, exercise and common questions
Our cardiac nurses answer your questions about how to lower your cholesterol, including simple food and exercise tips.
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How the brain and cardiovascular system communicate: implications for diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Andrew G Ramage
Information about your blood pressure and heart rate is continuously sent to a specialised area of your brain via nerves. Processing of the information arriving in the brain concerning blood pressure and heart rate involves the release of c...
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Pandemic sees drop in heart patients taking up life saving aftercare sessions
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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Hijacking the immune system to help prevent heart transplant rejectionKing's College London | Professor Giovanna Lombardi
When the heart becomes irreversibly damaged and fails, heart transplantation can be the only treatment option. However rejection of the donor heart by the immune system is a major problem. Immunosuppressant drugs have unpleasant side effect...
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Participation in life saving cardiac aftercare plunges by a third during Covid-19 pandemic
The number of people who have been participating in cardiac rehab dropped by a third when Covid-19 first hit.