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Fat round your middle could be most harmful to blood pressure, say researchers
Where you carry excess weight on your body may increase your risk of high blood pressure.
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New Virtual Reality technology to repair hearts
We're funding a team of doctors and engineers to develop new virtual reality technology that creates a three-dimension, beating digital double of the heart. Using it to plan and practice congenital heart disease surgeries and procedures could help to shorten operations and reduce the need for multiple surgeries.
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Virtual heart map to help doctors locate artery blockages
Research that we're funding at the University of Sheffield could make angiograms more effective and help clinicians locate blockages in coronary arteries.
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10 unhealthy foods to ditch and what to eat instead
Looking to make healthy changes? Get expert tips from our Senior Dietitian on what unhealthy foods you should drop from your diet.
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How to get active indoors
Dreary weather can make it harder to exercise outside. Our guide can keep you moving without needing to leave the house.
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Researchers identify new genetic changes that cause high blood pressure in pregnant women
A unique pair of genetic changes has been found to cause sudden onset high blood pressure in pregnant women, according to research we've part-funded and published in Nature Genetics.
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Using patient data to improve treatment and care for heart attack patientsUniversity of Leeds | Professor Christopher Gale
Dr Chris Gale and colleagues from the University of Leeds will spend two years creating the world’s largest research database of information about heart attacks. They will do this by linking together, for the first time, existing databases ...
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Twice yearly cholesterol jab shows promise
A new gene silencing drug could be used to lower ‘bad-cholesterol’ in the blood according to new findings presented at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Paris.
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Developing better scans to guide cardiac catheterisationKing's College London | Dr Sebastien Roujol
Cardiac catheterisation is used to aid diagnosis and treatment in people with congenital heart disease (CHD). It involves inserting a catheter and a guidewire into the circulatory system through the groin or arm and is guided by an X-ray ma...
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Going inside the heart to make pacemakers benefit more people with heart failureKing's College London | Professor Reza Razavi
Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) is a procedure that’s commonly used in patients with heart failure, which occurs when the heart is not pumping blood around the body as well as it should. This happens most commonly when the heart mus...