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Why blood vessels can become like bone in old ageKing's College London | Professor Catherine Shanahan
As we age, the smooth muscle cells that make up our blood vessels can start to calcify, becoming rigid like bone. The technical term for this phenomenon is vascular calcification. It can cause high blood pressure, heart attacks or strokes a...
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Finding out if protein called Brn-3b controls aortic stiffnessUniversity College London | Dr Vishwanie Budhram-Mahadeo
Dr Vishwanie Budhram Mahadeo from University College London is studying a protein called Brn-3b, to find out if this protein could hold the key to preventing stiffness of the heart’s major artery. The aorta is a large, elastic blood ves...
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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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Virtual Reality hearts - how our research could help children like Rosie
Rosie was born with congenital heart disease. Her parents say that new VR technology, developed with funding from us, could improve the experiences of families like theirs.
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Can molecules called chemokines flag heart transplant rejection?Newcastle University | Professor Simi Ali
Supervised by Dr Simi Ali, the PhD student funded by this grant is investigating ways to help prevent rejection of donor hearts. Heart transplantation is often the only option for patients with end-stage heart failure. Better drugs mean t...
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Identifying risk factors that predict future stroke riskUniversity of Oxford | Dr Alastair Webb
Dr Alastair Webb and his colleagues at the University of Oxford are looking for ways to prevent people who have had strokes experiencing another one. To do so, they are trying to identify factors which could predict the likelihood of anothe...
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Familial hypercholesterolaemia
Some people are born with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a genetic condition where your liver can’t process cholesterol properly. Learn more about FH, including the signs and symptoms, tests and treatments.
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Hunting for new genes that cause aneurysmsSt George's, University of London | Professor Elijah Behr
A thoracic aortic aneurysm is a widening or bulging of the aorta in your chest – the aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, responsible for carrying blood out of your heart. If the aneurysm bursts, it can be fatal. In recent years, ...
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Do dysfunctional carotid bodies underlie a form of heart failureUniversity of Bristol | Dr Emma Hart
The carotid body is a cluster of sensors near to the carotid artery in the throat. It is highly sensitive to reduced blood flow and reduced oxygen circulation, and triggers hyperventilation and increased blood pressure by activating an arm ...