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Imperial College London | Professor Prakash P Punjabi

Supervised by Prakash Punjabi, a Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying cells within the heart called fibroblasts and how they can support the growth of new heart tissue. Fibroblasts help the body to repair itself after injury. But ...

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University of Sheffield | Dr Victoria Ridger

Atherosclerosis is a disease that causes the large blood vessels in our bodies to clog up because fatty plaques develop in the walls of arteries. Dr Victoria Ridger from the University of Sheffield is investigating whether tiny particles re...

The British Heart Foundation is urging people to look more closely at some popular gut-friendly foods which, while beneficial for the microbiome, may also come with hidden risks for heart health when eaten in excess.

Researchers funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the University of Leeds will investigate how people living with heart failure can benefit from personalised pacemaker programming.

Chart toppers like The 1975 and Anne-Marie are urging fans to learn lifesaving CPR skills to their favourite songs, in support of our campaign on Spotify.

Vitamin D is essential for bone and muscle health. BHF Senior Dietitian Dell Stanford explains that it comes from your diet and sunlight, but during autumn and winter everyone in the UK should take a 10mcg supplement.

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has joined forces with the National Institute of Health research (NIHR) to launch a nationwide research initiative to better understand why people with heart and circulatory diseases are at higher risk and often suffer more severely with Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.

We aim to stop heart disease before it starts, save more lives from heart disease, and support people with heart disease to live longer, healthier lives.

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that could, in future, enable wearable technology to warn those at risk of dangerous heart rhythm changes. The research, which was presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference, found that the algorithm could use ECGs to accurately identify people at highest risk of being hospitalised or dying due to arrhythmias.

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University of East Anglia | Dr Samuel Fountain

Dr Samuel Fountain has been awarded a three-year grant to find out how immune cells called monocytes contribute to atherosclerosis – the build-up of fatty deposits (plaques) in blood vessel walls which causes coronary heart disease. During ...