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Improving the long-term safety of a common heart procedure in young people.Newcastle University | Professor Mark Pearce
Cardiac catheterisation is a procedure where a dye or device is delivered down a flexible tube into the heart’s blood supply while being visualised by X-rays. It’s used in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of lots of different heart ...
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How to deal with uncertainty
Uncertainty can be challenging to deal with, especially when it affects your health. Rachelle Beaven shares tips from the experts on how to cope.
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BHF pays tribute to Professor Michael Oliver
BHF pays tribute to Professor Michael Oliver - one of the charity's most eminent chair holders between 1978 and 1989
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Using stem cells to med broken heartsImperial College London | Professor Sian Harding
The BHF funds three pioneering Centres of Regenerative Medicine at top UK universities. Each centre has a different scientific focus, but together they are moving us closer to our goal of unlocking ways to repair the damage caused by a hear...
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Restoring blood flow to damaged tissues - do stem cells hold the key?Queen's University Belfast | Professor David Grieve
In diseases where blood flow to tissues becomes reduced (ischaemia), new blood vessels grow – this is called ‘angiogenesis’. Ischaemic diseases such as those affecting the heart and limbs affect millions of people each year and are major ca...
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Is avocado good for the heart?
We look at research that suggests that eating an avocado a week cuts the risk of coronary heart disease by up to a fifth.
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A new way of assessing heart health in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertensionUniversity College London | Dr Vivek Muthurangu
Pulmonary hypertension is a life-threatening condition in which high blood pressure develops in the blood vessels in the lungs. It is not common, but is extremely serious for those who have it - mostly women – because it can cause the heart...
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Obesity linked to damaging changes in failing hearts
Obesity is linked to changes in the structure and pumping action of the heart before it develops heart failure, according to research we've funded and presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.
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A BHF Centre of Regenerative Medicine funded by our Mending Broken Hearts AppealUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
£2.5m will establish our BHF Centre of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, one of the world's leading institutions in heart research. Although the centre is officially based in Edinburgh, it involves collaboration between ...
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What does giving blood involve, and can you give blood if you’re a heart patient?
Find out what giving blood involves, where you can donate blood, and whether you can give blood if you have heart disease.