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Echocardiogram: how to read your results
Read an expert in echocardiography's guide to the most common terms and acronyms you’ll see on your echo report.
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What's it like being a counsellor for families with an inherited heart condition?
When faced with a life-changing diagnosis, families with inherited heart conditions are in need of support. Dr Liz Ormondroyd tells us what it’s like being a genetic counsellor and what she’s learned along the way.
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Is there a link between infertility and heart problems?
Is there a link between infertility and heart problems? Our expert, Abigail Fraser, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, explains.
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Understanding patterns of weight change as a risk predictor for heart diseaseUniversity College London | Dr Michail Katsoulis
Most research into weight and health has focused extensively on body mass index (BMI) levels across different populations of people at a single point in time. However, there has been no study looking at the relationship between weight chang...
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A supportive landscape for care and support planning
Understand how health and social care policy changes in the UK look set to create an environment that will support wider adoption of care and support planning.
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New stem cell combination could help to repair damaged hearts
A combination of heart cells derived from human stem cells could be the answer to developing a desperately-needed treatment for heart failure, according to new research we part-funded published in Nature Biotechnology.
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Do I need to do 24-hour blood pressure monitoring?
BHF Professor Peter Weissberg answers a question on how blood pressure can be accurately measured before making a diagnosis. Find out more.
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The development of a new transcatheter prosthetic mitral valveUniversity College London | Professor Gaetano Burriesci
Dr Gaetano Burriesci and colleagues at University College London have been awarded £180,000 to design and test a new artificial valve for heart patients. Their aim is to develop a prosthetic mitral valve (one of the main heart valves that c...
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Studying BMP9, a potential therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertensionUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Wei Li
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare but devastating condition, for which effective treatments are urgently needed. In PAH, the blood pressure in the arteries supplying the lungs is very high. This puts a strain on the right side...
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Disrupting damaging signals that contribute to atherosclerosisUniversity of East Anglia | Dr Samuel Fountain
Most heart attacks and strokes occur because the arteries feeding the heart or brain have become clogged, a condition called atherosclerosis. During atherosclerosis, fatty material builds up in the walls of arteries. Part of this process in...