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Trial Steering Committee guidelines
Guidelines and terms of reference for BHF Trial Steering Committees.
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Surprising ways to get your 5-a-day
Getting your 5-a-day can help reduce your risk of heart and circulatory diseases. Read about five easy and tasty ways to eat more fruit and vegetables in your diet.
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A day in the life: can a UTI lead to a heart attack or stroke?
Meet the BHF-funded researcher looking into what might be a surprising trigger for heart attacks and strokes.
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Predicting and preventing brain haemorrhage in people taking warfarin after stroke caused by atrial fibrillationUniversity College London | Professor David Werring
Atrial fibrillation is a condition where the heart beats irregularly, which can lead to a clot forming in the heart chambers. This clot can travel up to block a blood vessel in the brain, causing a stroke. After this type of stroke warfarin...
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NICE recommends statins should be a choice for more people to prevent heart attacks and strokes
New draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that more people can be considered for statins to reduce their risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
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Investigating a new way to prevent tissue remodelling in heart diseaseUniversity of Manchester | Dr Delvac Oceandy
Dr Delvac Oceandy and his team at the University of Manchester are studying if changing calcium levels in cells which help maintain tissue structure in many organs including the heart, called fibroblasts, could help to prevent tissues ‘remo...
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Investigating new ways to prevent thrombosisUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Stephanie Jung
Many types of heart and circulatory disease occur because of the build-up of dangerous ‘fatty’ plaques in the walls of blood vessels. During this process blood cells and fatty material become trapped in an area of the vessel wall. Some plaq...
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Testing a new diagnosis tool to prevent fatal heart attacksKing's College London | Professor Divaka Perera
Any of the arteries in the heart can become narrowed and prone to blockages, which can lead to a heart attack. However, when the left main coronary artery (LMCA) becomes blocked, this is more likely to cause a heart attack that is fatal. ...
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Researchers develop new scan to predict stroke
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new type of MRI scan to predict the risk of having a stroke, thanks to funding from the British Heart Foundation.
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Transient ischaemic attack (TIA): what is a mini stroke?
You may have heard of a mini stroke or 'TIA', but what exactly is it? We speak to an expert to find out.