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Using artificial intelligence to predict the underlying causes of high blood pressureUniversity of Manchester | Professor Maciej Tomaszewski
High blood pressure (hypertension) is a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. Studies of the human genome have identified over a thousand differences between people’s DNA (genetic variants) that are associated with blood pressure. T...
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Is reduced blood flow in the brain linked to high blood pressure?University of Bristol | Dr Emma Hart
The development of high blood pressure (hypertension) is incompletely understood. Dr Emma Hart and colleagues believe that reduced brain blood flow might be involved in the development of hypertension because an increase in blood pressure h...
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Understanding the role of Pak3 protein in heart cell dysfunction and heart failureUniversity of Manchester | Dr Wei Liu
Heart failure – when the heart cannot pump blood around the body effectively – is a leading cause of death worldwide. Regardless of the initial cause, many changes take place in heart cells during the development of heart failure. Autopha...
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Transposition of the great arteries (TGA)
Transposition of the great arteries (TGA) is a type of congenital heart disease, which means it’s something you’re born with. Learn more about transposition of the great arteries, including what it is, its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, CCTGA and living with TGA.
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The Miles Frost Fund launched to prevent deaths from undiagnosed heart condition
We've joined forces with the family of Miles Frost, who died age 31 of an undiagnosed heart condition. The Miles Frost Fund will help to fund a genetic test for families at risk of the inherited condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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Gender and ethnicity pay report
We've published a report setting out what we're doing on gender and ethnicity pay at British Heart Foundation.
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ACE inhibitors and ARBs do not make coronavirus worse
Drugs commonly prescribed to treat high blood pressure do not worsen coronavirus (Covid-19) disease, according to research the BHF part-funded.
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Looking for ways to prevent heart and circulatory disease in people with diabetesUniversity of Leeds | Professor Mark Kearney
Type 2 diabetes affects millions of people across the world and is a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. We urgently need to find new treatments to prevent heart and circulatory disease in people with diabetes, so we can improve the ...
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Eggs and cholesterol
Our Senior Dietitian Victoria Taylor responds to news stories on eggs and cholesterol
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Why and how is cell-to-cell conduction speed impaired by heart attack?University of Glasgow | Professor Godfrey L Smith
Researchers in Glasgow are studying why, after heart attack, electrical conduction through the heart changes. When the heart beats, all of its cells must contract in coordinated fashion. To make this happen, an electrical signal spreads ra...