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  • David Seaman shines a spotlight on daily heart disease deaths

    Football legend David Seaman MBE and more than 200 British Heart Foundation supporters came together to shine a spotlight on hidden heart conditions and their impact on the nation every day.

  • Ymgyrchu a dylanwadu yng Nghymru

    Cewch ddysgu am waith ym meysydd polisi, eiriol ac ymchwil i weld sut mae BHF Cymru'n ymgyrchu i wella gofal am y galon a chylchrediad y gwaed yng Nghymru.

  • Reducing smoking to save lives

    We’ve fought against smoking for decades, from demonstrating that passive smoking in public places kills, to influencing Government policy.

  • Apply for a free defibrillator for your community 

    We offer defibrillator funding to eligible community groups and resources to help you train your community in CPR with our free online RevivR CPR training.

  • BHF responds to Autumn Budget

    The BHF has responded to the Government's Autumn Budget

  • RESEARCH

    An app to reduce salt intake and hypertension

    University of Oxford | Professor Susan Jebb

    Professor Susan A Jebb from the University of Oxford wants to help people reduce their salt intake and reduce their risk of high blood pressure. She and her team are doing this through a two-pronged approach. First, they will interview peop...

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    Studying a master switch that underlies heart hypertrophy

    University College London | Dr Vishwanie Budhram-Mahadeo

    The heart’s specialised muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, help pump blood around the body. Stress or damage can force the heart to work harder, which causes the cells to adapt to the workload by growing larger, a process called hypertrop...

  • New risk calculator could lead to more successful heart operations

    Patients could receive a greater benefit from open heart surgery thanks to a new computer model aimed at helping surgeons to better calculate risk and decide whether it’s safe to operate.

  • RESEARCH

    Expanding platelets to understand the detail of blood clotting

    University of Birmingham | Dr Steven Thomas

    Platelets play an essential role in normal blood clotting to prevent blood loss after injury, but also when there is unwanted clotting in a blood vessel, called thrombosis. Scientists now have a greater understanding of the blood clotting p...

  • Call to boost heart failure nursing

    Urgent funding is needed to increase heart failure nurse numbers, education and expertise across NHS Scotland, finds a new review of services.