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Diabetes causes subtle structural changes to the heart, according to new research.

New imaging technology can identify smaller blood clots that current heart scans cannot pick-up, and could help guide more efficient treatment for people who’ve had a heart attack, according to research we've funded and presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

A commonly taken antiobiotic may increase the risk of heart problems.

We’ve called for urgent action as figures for December revealed average ambulance response times of over 90 minutes for heart attacks and strokes in England.

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University of Leicester | Professor Shu S Ye

Genetic variations are the differences in DNA among individuals. These differences mean that some people are more likely than others to develop heart and circulatory disease. There is evidence to suggest that some specific genetic variatio...

RESEARCH

University of Leicester | Professor Nicholas Brindle

Damage to blood vessels can cause a number of serious conditions including coronary heart disease and stroke. The body normally produces a protein called Ang1 that binds to the cells lining our blood vessels to keep them healthy. In several...

Ten year old Lucy, from Basingstoke, is the oldest person known world-wide that has been able to undergo a transplant to receive a ‘mismatched’ heart, thanks to a new method developed by our researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Sir Patrick Vallance joined over 12,000 cyclists who pedalled their way to success in the British Heart Foundation's (BHF) London to Brighton Bike Ride on Sunday 16th June, raising over £1 million for vital heart research.

Life saving public access defibrillators used in less than one in ten cardiac arrests as tens of thousands remain unregistered.