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Vitamins and supplements to avoid with heart medicines
How common supplements like vitamin B3, K, E, St John's wort, garlic, liquorice root and CoQ10 enzyme can interact with blood-thinners, statins and blood pressure medicines.
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Statins and what they do
Statins are medicines that help lower your cholesterol and protect your arteries. Understand what statins do, and are used for, the pros and cons, their side effects and potential alternatives.
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A community comes together to save lives
Lianne realised the importance of having a defibrillator on the estate after her mother’s near-death experience. Here she explains how the community came together to make it happen.
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RESEARCH
Interrupting the cycle of inflammation that leads to deep vein thrombosisUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Alexander Brill
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a serious condition where a blood clot forms in one of the veins deep in the leg, usually in the calf. DVT causes pain, swelling and redness and is a medical emergency because, if the clot dislodges, it can tra...
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Fixing cell energy production in the cells that line the blood vessels, to find a treatment for PAHUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Paola Caruso
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare but lethal disease of high blood pressure in the lungs. This high pressure puts a strain on the person’s heart, which struggles to cope and which can lead to heart failure. The precise cause o...
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Hospital cardiac waiting lists in Northern Ireland continue to rise
Hospital waiting times for potentially life saving heart care are continuing to rise, according to new figures.
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Sugar, salt and fat
This section explains what's really in your food and make the right choices when it comes to foods that are high in sugar, salt and fat.
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RESEARCH
A clinical trial to find the best treatment for minor strokeUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Keith Muir
Around half of strokes have minor symptoms or appear to improve quickly (known as a transient ischaemic attack). However, about 1 in 3 of these minor strokes can lead to long-lasting disability. People who’ve had a minor stroke are not ...
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Developing a computer program to select the optimal medication for type 2 diabetesUniversity of Exeter | Dr John Dennis
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a serious, common condition which occurs when problems with the hormone insulin lead to high levels of sugar in the blood. Prolonged high blood sugar causes various health problems. Metformin is the first drug pres...
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Trial resumes to prevent dementia after a stroke
Research funded by us is investigating if cheap, existing drugs currently used to treat other heart and circulatory diseases could help patients who have a lacunar stroke