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University of Leicester | Dr Michael Sweeting

People with heart and circulatory diseases are living longer thanks to improvements in treatment. This means we need to better understand what other long-term conditions they may develop as they grow older (such as cancer). Health data in...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Dimitrios Tsiantoulas

Our immune system plays a critical role in the health and disease of our heart and circulatory system, though researchers believe there is much more to this crucial relationship than we currently understand. For instance, we know little abo...

People in England with coronary heart disease will be seen, diagnosed and treated up to five times faster following the introduction of 3D heart scans being rolled out on the NHS.

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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...

Our medical experts explain what you need to know about the Covid-19 coronavirus if you have congenital heart disease.

Find out what leads to low blood pressure and how it’s measured and treated.

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University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common circulatory problem where arteries become narrowed, reducing blood flow to the limbs. Over a quarter of people with critical limb ischemia (CLI), the most advanced form of PAD, are unsuitable for ...

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University of Oxford | Professor Robin P Choudhury

Professor Robin Choudhury and his colleagues at the University of Oxford are working out how to combine imaging techniques so they can be used to tell doctors what has happened to heart muscle after a heart attack, and what caused it. N...