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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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Does mutated aquaporin-1 cause pulmonary hypertension?University of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) – high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs – is a rare but incurable condition that leads to heart failure. Several genetic mutations found in people with PAH patients are known to play an impor...
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Devising new tests that better predict which patients with coronary heart disease should receive a stentUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Keith G Oldroyd
Coronary heart disease is caused by blockage in the coronary arteries - the vessels that supply blood to the heart muscle. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a method of measuring pressure waves in the coronary artery to estimate the severity...
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Does bad fat around small arteries cause high blood pressure?University of Manchester | Dr Adam Greenstein
High blood pressure (hypertension) and obesity are important causes of cardiovascular death. Furthermore, there is a relationship between these factors: as body weight increases, blood pressure rises. Until recently there has been no explan...
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Stayin' alive with hands only CPR
Read about Alan Linton's fight for survival on his local golf course.
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No such thing as 'healthy obesity' research finds
Researchers that we part-fund have found that being overweight or obese increases a person’s risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by up to 28% compared to those with a healthy body weight, even if they have healthy blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
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UK flagship projects
Leaders from the NIHR-BHF Framework have approved seven new UK Covid-19 projects.
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How does a faulty JAK2 gene cause bleeding in blood cancer?University of York | Dr Ian Hitchcock
Dr Ian Hitchcock and colleagues at the University of York are studying myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) - a type of blood cancer commonly caused by a fault in a gene called JAK2. The most common causes of illness and death in people with ...
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Running training schedules
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Babies' DNA affects mothers' risk of preeclampsia
Some features in a baby’s DNA can increase the risk of its mother developing pre-eclampsia – a potentially dangerous condition in pregnancy - according to a study that we've part-funded.