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Studying skin cells in ARVC to understand heart rhythm disturbancesQueen Mary, University of London | Professor David Kelsell
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited disorder of heart muscle that can cause dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, heart failure and even sudden death. There is an urgent need to understand the causes and proce...
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Can drinking tea help you to live longer?
“Tea could help you live longer”, say recent newspaper reports. We look behind the headlines and give our verdict on the research.
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BHF teams up with Microsoft to create stronger supporter relationships
We have teamed up with Microsoft to provide more personalised experiences to our supporters, volunteers, and customers, with the aim of increasing more support for our life saving science.
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Using artificial intelligence to identify good candidates for heart surgery in the UKUniversity of Bristol | Professor Umberto Benedetto
People who require open heart surgery must be informed about the risks related to the operation. Currently, heart surgeons in the UK calculate the risk using a mathematical model called EuroSCORE. This model is no longer considered to be ...
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How does inflammation in the hearts smallest blood vessels contribute to heart failure?King's College London | Professor Simon Redwood
Researchers at St Thomas’ Hospital are trying to understand a form of heart failure that’s currently very hard to treat. Heart failure occurs when the heart can’t pump enough blood around the body and is a major cause of death and disabi...
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Government rejects another opportunity to improve NHS workforce planning
The Government has again missed an opportunity to overhaul NHS workforce planning in rejecting an amendment to the Health and Care Bill.
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Research shows broken heart syndrome causes long lasting heart damage
A condition once thought to temporarily cause heart failure in people who experience severe stress might actually cause longer-lasting damage to the heart muscle, according to new research that we've funded.
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Using CT scans to find patients at greater risk of heart attackUniversity College London | Dr Christos Bourantas
People who have coronary heart disease – when the arteries feeding the heart are narrowed by fatty plaques – are at risk of having a heart attack. But the risk isn’t the same for everyone, because plaques that are settled and stable may not...
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Using artificial intelligence to predict the underlying causes of high blood pressureUniversity of Manchester | Professor Maciej Tomaszewski
High blood pressure (hypertension) is a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. Studies of the human genome have identified over a thousand differences between people’s DNA (genetic variants) that are associated with blood pressure. T...
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Enhancing the body’s natural anti-clotting system to treat thrombosisImperial College London | Professor James Crawley
Blood clotting is highly coordinated and involves processes that promote clotting and others that inhibit it. One of the body’s natural clot-inhibiting pathways is called the “TFPI-protein S anticoagulant system”. In this system, the TFPI...