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Government action needed to avoid 12,000 extra heart attacks and strokes
There could be at least 12,000 extra heart attacks and strokes over the next five years without bold Government intervention.
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Antibodies may be key to pre-empting heart attacks
Researchers believe that testing levels of certain antibodies in the blood will soon help to identify patients with ‘vulnerable’ or life-threatening plaques in heart arteries.
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How the Piezo1 protein helps endothelial cells respond to stretchUniversity of Leeds | Professor David Beech
Professor David Beech and colleagues at the University of Leeds have been awarded a PhD studentship to allow a young researcher to study the physical forces within blood vessels. They have shown that a protein called Piezo1, an ion chan...
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Attempting to slow down or prevent the development of atherosclerosisImperial College London | Professor Justin C Mason
Understanding how atherosclerosis develops and progresses may reveal new ways to prevent or treat the condition in the future. Cells lining the inner wall of our blood vessels are called endothelial cells, or ‘the endothelium’, and are impo...
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The role of pericytes in regenerating blood vessels and healing heartsUniversity of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu
Bristol researchers are on the search to solve the challenge of regenerating blood vessels. During a heart attack a coronary artery is blocked, starving part of the heart of oxygen. This injures the heart muscle and – in heart attack survi...
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Structure-function mapping of the heart to understand abnormal heart rhythmsUniversity of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng
Ventricular arrhythmias can lead to sudden cardiac death. There is currently no method of preventing sudden cardiac death, and there is a need to understand the underlying electrical and nervous disruption that causes the abnormal rhythm. T...
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The link between high blood pressure and a protein called apelinUniversity of Bristol | Dr Anne Marie O Carroll
Dr Anne-Marie O’Carroll is studying a protein called apelin to work out what role it plays in high blood pressure. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major health problem but we don’t fully understand what causes it. Recently the...
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How do mutations affecting the nuclear envelope lead to dilated cardiomyopathy?King's College London | Dr Matthew Stroud
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is one of the most common forms of inheritable heart disease. It affects the heart muscle, making it stretched and thin so that the heart can’t pump blood around the body efficiently. People with DCM are at risk...
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What tips the balance to cause inflammation in atrial fibrillation?St George's, University of London | Dr Ingrid Dumitriu
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, affecting more than a million people in the UK. AF interferes with the pumping action of the heart in a way that makes blood clots more likely to form, which can ca...
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The role of factor XIII and fibrinogen in blood clot formationUniversity of Leeds | Professor Peter J Grant
Although blood clotting is an important response to injury, under certain circumstances a blood clot called a thrombus can grow in a blood vessel, blocking the flow of blood and even breaking free from the vessel wall. A thrombus in the cir...