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Find out what giving blood involves, where you can donate blood, and whether you can give blood if you have heart disease.

Fats have important regulatory roles that help the heart to conserve energy when blood supply to the heart muscle is reduced, such as in a heart attack. Researchers from the University of Oxford think that the increased levels of fats seen in the hearts of people with type 2 diabetes might make their cells resistant to these important effects. They found that the hearts of rats with type 2 diabetes use up their energy supplies more quickly than those without the condition during a heart attack. This leaves their hearts with less energy – a strong predictor of worse outcomes after heart attack.

SENIOR-RITA tested whether people aged over 80 should have invasive treatment for NSTEMI heart attack.

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University of Manchester | Dr Alicia DSouza

Exercising regularly is good for heart health, but athletes and people who take part in intensive exercise, such as ultramarathons, can be prone to heart rhythm disturbances such as atrial fibrillation. Dr Alicia D’Souza has previously sh...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Suchita Nadkarni

Dr Suchita Nadkarni from Queen Mary University of London is studying how interactions between the body’s immune system and blood vessels can influence the outcome of certain heart and circulatory diseases and procedures, such as heart attac...

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University of Leicester | Professor Leong Ng

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is when the heart can still contract, but the heart muscle may be stiffer than normal, making it less efficient. This project aims to find signals in the blood, called biomarkers that c...

Developing new ways to measure stiffness of arteries

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University of Leeds | Professor David Beech

In the UK, too few of us achieve the recommended level of physical activity to protect our heart health. This is a complex problem in today’s society, and addressing it requires a wide range of solutions to encourage people to exercise and ...

This page describes how your doctor can use an angiogram to look inside your coronary arteries, what happens during and after an angiogram and the risks of having the procedure.

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University of Leeds | Professor Derek S Steele

In a recent breakthrough, scientists have discovered that the drug, flecainide, is an effective treatment for a type of inherited heart rhythm disturbance (arrhythmia) linked to sudden cardiac death, called catecholaminergic polymorphic tac...