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The effect of mental or emotional stress on cardiovascular healthKing's College London | Professor Simon Redwood
We know that angina – a dull, heavy or tight chest pain caused by restricted blood flow to the heart – could be a sign that someone is at risk of a future heart attack. Previous studies have shown that angina can be triggered by physical ac...
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BHF awards £34m to top universities, helping to safeguard UK’s world-class research status
We've awarded £34m in grants to support world-class heart and circulatory research at the UK's top universities. The awards empower universities to attract and nurture the very best talent and enable the agility needed to exploit new ideas and technologies.
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Can a new drug improve blood flow to the limbs in peripheral arterial disease?University of Edinburgh | Dr Patrick Hadoke
Dr Patrick Hadoke is investigating whether a new drug he has developed boosts new blood vessel growth and improves blood flow to the limbs in people with peripheral arterial disease. People with peripheral arterial disease have a reduce...
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The role of blood flow in blood vessel function, and its importance during diabetesUniversity of Strathclyde | Professor John G McCarron
Professor John McCarron and his colleagues at the University of Strathclyde are studying how blood vessels respond to blood flow, and why blood flow changes in people with diabetes. Changes in blood flow can cause blood vessels to contrac...
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Using data for a complete and individual picture of calcium signalling in the heartKing's College London | Dr Steven Niederer
Data scientists are developing ways to identify people who are vulnerable to heart side-effects from certain medicines. With every heartbeat, electricity travels across the heart and activates its muscle cells to contract. The chemical sig...
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Could anyone be offered statins to lower their risk of heart attack and stroke?
We look behind the headlines about new draft guidelines on who could be offered statins.
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How does the age of a platelet change its function in heart and circulatory disease?Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Timothy Warner
Platelets are small cells that circulate in the blood. They stop bleeding from damaged blood vessels by rapidly sticking together and forming a blood clot, but if a clot forms at the wrong time it can be dangerous. Atherosclerosis is a dis...
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Southall And Brent Revisited (SABRE) tri-ethnic study: how diabetes increases the risk of heart failure, dementia, heart attack and strokeUniversity College London | Professor Nish Chaturvedi
Patients with diabetes have a higher chance of later having heart failure, dementia, heart attacks, or strokes compared with people who don’t have diabetes. The exact reasons for this are unknown. With an ageing population, diabetes is beco...
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How coronavirus changed the way patients responded to a heart attack
The death rate for patients who experienced what is normally a lower-risk heart attack rose sharply during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of NHS data.
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Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University pioneer new methods to understand heart and circulatory disease
A new NC3Rs & BHF grant will allow scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University to develop a new way to study the formation of dangerous blood clots.