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High-tech scanning techniques could reveal whether chemotherapy is damaging a person’s heart before any symptoms appear, according to research we've funded presented at the Global Cardio-oncology Summit in London.

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

This team of cardiologists think a highly sensitive blood test could help to detect people who are at risk of a future heart attack. Most people attending the emergency department with chest pain will have a blood test to measure troponin,...

One of our long-standing volunteers has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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University of Manchester | Dr Katharine Dibb

People with heart failure are at higher risk of atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm which greatly increases the risk of stroke. Dr Katharine Dibb and colleagues from the University of Manchester are researching the structure and f...

It was previously thought that blood pressure lowering medication might be more effective if taken at night-time. The TIME trial tested whether morning or night-time dosing makes a difference.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Ken Suzuki

In heart failure, the heart cannot pump blood around the body as well as it should and people become extremely tired and short of breath. In severe cases of heart failure, the only treatment option is a heart transplant. Heart failure usual...

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker

The BHF funds three pioneering Centres of Regenerative Medicine based at top UK universities. Each centre has a different scientific focus, but together they are moving us closer to our goal of unlocking ways to repair the damage caused by ...

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University of Oxford | Dr Constantinos Christodoulides

BHF Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow Dr Constantinos Christodoulides is working out if proteins called Wnts affect a person’s risk of developing heart and circulatory disease. The location of body fat determines how it influences th...

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Newcastle University | Professor Ioakim Spyridopoulos

Professor Ioakim Spyridopoulos and his team at the University of Newcastle are studying how heart tissue becomes damaged after stents are fitted. When a coronary artery that supplies the heart becomes blocked, doctors open the blocked ar...