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Does your weight affect your risk of heart surgery complications?University of Leicester | Professor Gavin Murphy
More than 35,000 people in the UK have heart surgery each year. Despite decades of research to improve outcomes, kidney and heart failure resulting from cardiac surgery still affects many patients. Professor Murphy’s team have shown that th...
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Developing a sensor for blood vessel damageManchester 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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How does a protein called SIRT1 prevent harmful blood clot formation?Manchester Metropolitan University | Dr Sarah Jones
Heart attacks and strokes occur when blood clots form and block the blood supply to the heart or brain. When blood vessels are damaged, small blood cells called platelets are activated and clump together to form a clot. In healthy blood ves...
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Taking part in a BHF-funded clinical trial - TRED-HF
We funded a clinical trial which aimed to find out if it is safe for people with dilated cardiomyopathy, but without symptoms, to stop heart failure treatment. But what was it like to take part?
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Understanding how high blood pressure causes kidney damageUniversity of Edinburgh | Dr Robert Menzies
BHF Postdoctoral Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Robert Menzies is working out how uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to kidney damage. Drugs that target blood pressure directly do reduce kidney damage but kidney function steadily d...
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How fat are your platelets?Cardiff University | Professor Valerie O'Donnell
Supervised by Professor Valerie O’Donnell, this PhD student will define the lipid ‘signature’ of platelets – cells that circulate in our bloodstream to stop bleeding. During heart and circulatory disease, platelets can become overactive...
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Research in Birmingham could improve treatments for deep vein thrombosis
New research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the University of Birmingham could improve outcomes for people at risk of dangerous blood clots.
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Studying a protein’s role in causing congenital heart defectsUniversity College London | Professor Peter Scambler
Professor Scambler and his team study how the heart develops in the embryo by investigating the genes involved in normal development. They are particularly interested in what goes wrong in the developing heart to cause congenital heart dise...
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