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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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Healthy eating toolkit
Eating healthily is just one of the ways you can try to keep your heart healthy. Our healthy eating toolkit is packed full of tools and information to help you.
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Investigating the potential to control blood vessel growth in diseaseUniversity of Nottingham | Professor David Bates
Throughout our life, new blood vessels grow to maintain a healthy circulatory system – a process called angiogenesis. However, the formation of new blood vessels can also occur in conditions such as heart disease and diabetes and can lead t...
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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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How do ADAMTS contribute to damaging changes to the extracellular matrix in heart disease?King's College London | Dr Javier Barallobre Barreiro
Researchers at King’s College London are studying why the mesh of proteins around the heart changes in heart disease. During heart failure the heart can’t pump strongly enough to respond to the demands of the body. It is a life-limiting ...
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Enhancing the body’s natural anti-clotting system to treat thrombosisImperial College London | Professor James Crawley
Blood clotting is highly coordinated and involves processes that promote clotting and others that inhibit it. One of the body’s natural clot-inhibiting pathways is called the “TFPI-protein S anticoagulant system”. In this system, the TFPI...
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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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How your heart works - heart and circulatory system
Find out more about the anatomy and function of the heart and circulatory system. Have a look through our pictures of the heart and learn more about what it takes to keep our blood pumping.
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Watch: How is gum disease linked to heart problems and diabetes?
Watch our animation to discover why brushing your teeth can help your cardiovascular system, and get answers to some common questions about oral health and heart conditions.
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Harnessing an active ingredient of fruit and vegetables to fight atherosclerosisCardiff University | Professor Dipak Ramji
Atherosclerosis is the name that doctors use for the narrowing of arteries due to fatty plaques building up in the walls of the blood vessel. It’s the condition that leads to angina, heart attacks and some strokes. The development of statin...