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How is the activation of platelets controlled in health and disease?University of Leeds | Professor Khalid Naseem
Researching how blood clotting escapes the normal controls in people with heart disease. Platelets are blood cells that become ‘sticky’ and clump together to form blood clots that stop us from bleeding too much after injury. However, in...
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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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The BHF House of Care programme
Learn about our £1.5 million programme to fund care and support planning via the House of Care framework at five NHS sites in England and Scotland.
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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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Game, Set… SOFA. British Heart Foundation delivers comfort to the Wimbledon queue
We served up something unexpected at this year’s Wimbledon – and it wasn’t strawberries and cream. For one day only, we surprised tennis fans by delivering a preloved sofa straight to the iconic Wimbledon queue, offering those in line a chance to rest their legs while highlighting our wide range of affordable, quality second-hand furniture.
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Rebuilding our lives together: Joe and Rhiannon's story
Joe and Rhiannon Baxter reflect on the changes to their lives after Joe’s cardiac arrest.
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The best foods for a healthier gut and heart
Did you know that poor gut health can also harm your heart? Gut health specialist dietitian Dr Megan Rossi (PhD) shares her expert tips.
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Do epigenetic clues hold the key to treating pulmonary hypertension?Imperial College London | Dr Stephen Wort
People with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have high blood pressure in their lungs. This causes a thickening of the lung’s blood vessel walls, which increases resistance to the blood flow but also puts a strain on the right side of t...
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Would switching to a salt substitute reduce stroke, heart attacks and deaths?
Reports of a recent study suggest that a salt substitute can lower the chance of stroke, heart attack and death. We look behind the headlines and give the BHF’s view.
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Targeting molecule scissors to prevent the development of blood clotsUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Michael Tomlinson
Platelets are small cells that clump together to plug wounds and minimise blood loss, but when they clump together too much, it can block blood flow and cause heart attacks or strokes. This is called thrombosis. Scientists are studying plat...