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Over 500,000 people in the UK are living with heart failure. BHF research has created treatments to give people with heart failure longer, healthier lives.

Since we began 60 years ago, we’ve been training generations of researchers and supporting world-leading scientists to improve people’s lives.

From dressing up our shops and stores to encouraging people to volunteer with us as part of ‘The Big Help Out’, there’s a lot we’ve been doing to help the Royal Family champion the work of charities like ours around this historic occasion.

A series of radio ads were brought to an abrupt and heart-stopping halt by the sound of a flatlining heart monitor on August 1.

Learn more about how being a woman can put you at a disadvantage if you have a heart attack. Read on to download our Bias and Biology briefing.

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University of Cambridge | Professor John Danesh

The British Heart Foundation is funding BHF Professor John Danesh, at the University of Cambridge, nearly £2 million over five years to create an international group of heart experts. This group will bring together data from around the worl...

RESEARCH

University of Southampton | Professor Mark Hanson

Heart and circulatory disease causes a significant number of deaths, every year in the UK. New ways to encourage people to follow a healthy lifestyle in the long term could have huge benefits for health, and that of future generations. ...

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University of Leeds | Professor Christopher Gale

Dr Chris Gale and colleagues from the University of Leeds will spend two years creating the world’s largest research database of information about heart attacks. They will do this by linking together, for the first time, existing databases ...