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    Studying a protein that helps new blood vessels grow

    University College London | Dr Claudio Raimondi

    Finding out how new blood vessels grow is important for developing treatments to restore blood flow in tissues that are starved of oxygen (ischaemic tissue). Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) is a protein in the endothelial cells that line the inside of...

  • Why walking football is good for you

    Find out how walking football improved these lifelong football devotees health and wellbeing after they developed heart problems.

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    Microbubble contrast agents for improved ultrasound imaging of blood vessels

    Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh | Dr Vassilis Sboros

    Heart and circulatory disease is Britain’s biggest killer. New methods are urgently needed to quickly and accurately diagnose problems with the heart and circulatory system so that they can be treated or monitored before they become more se...

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    Tetherin: an important platelet surface protein in cardiovascular disease?

    University of Bristol | Professor Stuart Mundell

    One of the main contributors to coronary heart disease is thrombosis - a serious condition that can develop when a blood vessel becomes damaged and small blood cells called platelets stick to the damaged area, forming a clot inside the bloo...

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    What puts older women at risk of cardiovascular disease?

    University College London | Professor Juan Casas

    Heart disease is the UK’s single biggest killer and women older than 65 years are at particular risk. The reasons for this remain unknown, which is a particular concern, given the ageing population. Dr Juan Casas and colleagues from the Lon...

  • Nicholas Mills

    Nicholas Mills is the BHF Professor of Cardiology at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh.

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    Developing a sensor for blood vessel damage

    Manchester Metropolitan University | Dr Stephen White

    Around a third of heart attacks are caused when fatty plaques in the walls of arteries become unstable and rupture. This tends to happen when the cells that line the blood vessels – endothelial cells – detach, causing the formation of blood...

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    A clinical trial of gene therapy for heart failure

    Imperial College London | Professor Sian Harding

    Drugs can slow the progress of heart failure, but at present the only cure is a heart transplant, which is limited by the supply of donor hearts. Professor Sian Harding at Imperial College, London has shown that in the failing heart, eve...

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    Can we protect against high levels of stress hormones that cause heart disease?

    University of Edinburgh | Dr Mark Nixon

    High levels of stress hormones, called glucocorticoids, are known to cause obesity, diabetes and heart and circulatory diseases. The hormones circulate in the blood bound to another molecule called corticosteroid binding globulin (CBG), whi...