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Why walking football is good for you
Find out how walking football improved these lifelong football devotees health and wellbeing after they developed heart problems.
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Average ambulance waits for heart attacks and strokes rise to 46 minutes
Average ambulance response times for category 2 calls - which includes suspected heart attacks and strokes were 46 minutes in December in England, up from 39 minutes in November, latest NHS figures show.
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Scientists to improve heart attack treatment by blocking heart damaging molecules
Scientists in Cambridge are to investigate how the treatment of heart attacks could be improved by blocking heart damaging molecules called free radicals.
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Finding ways to repair damaged blood vessels in diabetesUniversity of Leeds | Dr Richard Cubbon
People with diabetes are at increased risk of heart attacks and strokes because of damaged blood vessels. This is in part because diabetes interferes with the body's repair of blood vessels, which may be because of the reduced action of a p...
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Matching heart problems to electrical readings on ECGsImperial College London | Professor Nicholas Peters
Professor Nicholas Peters and his colleagues at Imperial College London are working out how the electrical readings on ECGs (electrocardiograms) relate to underlying heart damage, so that doctors may be better able to diagnose heart problem...
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Creating state-of-the-art facilities to study heart functionUniversity College London | Professor Alun Hughes
BHF is helping to fund an imaging centre which aims to provide state of-the-art, highly precise images to help research teams understand heart and circulatory diseases. Based at UCL, the BCCP exploits the power of advanced scanning and i...
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Monitor blood pressure to reduce injuries from falling
New research suggests those on blood pressure medication are more likely to be injured in falls.
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Heart valve disease research
Heart valves play a crucial part in making sure your heart works properly. We're funding research to make it easy to detect heart valve problems early and treat them.
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University of Manchester receives BHF Research Accelerator Award
We have given a £1 million award to boost research into heart and circulatory conditions, including congenital heart disease.
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Can heart attacks be prevented?
BHF's Chief Scientific and Medical Officer explains how a healthy lifestyle, medicines and the help of new science could help fewer people have heart attacks in the future.