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King's College London | Professor Catherine Shanahan

Professor Catherine Shanahan at King’s College London is studying why, as we age, our arteries accumulate bone-like deposits and harden. This hardening increases our risk of developing high blood pressure or having a heart attack or stroke....

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University College London | Professor Silvia Schievano

Diseases of the heart valves are common and, when serious, require treatment with open-heart surgery. Recently, a non-surgical technique for aortic valve replacement has been developed. Despite its success, only patients considered at high ...

What exercise you can do before having heart bypass surgery.

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University of Cambridge | Dr Murray Clarke

Heart attacks are caused by rupture of abnormal thickenings (atherosclerotic plaques) that form within the coronary artery wall, leading to clots that block blood flow. One cause of plaque rupture is thought to be the loss of muscle cells, ...

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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...

Professor Cathie Sudlow, Director of the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, has been named as the first Chief Scientist of Health Data Research UK

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University of Manchester | Dr Ashraf Kitmitto

Heart complications are a major cause of death in people with diabetes and these complications are often associated with abnormal contraction of the heart. A protein called the ryanodine receptor (RyR) helps to control heart contraction by ...

Latest NHS England figures reveal that the number of people on cardiac waiting lists grew to a record 333,915 at the end of June in England, 8,347 more than the previous month, and the 24th consecutive month where an increase has been seen.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Paul Harrison

Platelets, the tiny cells in our body that help the blood to clot, live for only ten days. Because of this short lifespan, conditions that cause low platelet counts, such as thrombocytopenia, are usually caused by problems in producing enou...