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Easing back into exercise after a heart event
With a heart problem, it can be hard to know how much exercise is too much. Our Senior Cardiac Nurse offers advice on where to start.
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RESEARCH
Hijacking the immune system to help prevent heart transplant rejectionKing's College London | Professor Giovanna Lombardi
When the heart becomes irreversibly damaged and fails, heart transplantation can be the only treatment option. However rejection of the donor heart by the immune system is a major problem. Immunosuppressant drugs have unpleasant side effect...
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The story of my blood clot
Read three personal experiences of blood clots and the very different diseases they can cause. Our research starts with your heart but it doesn't end there.
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RESEARCH
How can a protein involved in energy-production prevent heart damage?Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Philip Eaton
BHF-funded researchers at Queen Mary University of London are investigating how to protect stressed hearts against heart failure. In some situations, the heart can become stressed, for example during and after a heart attack or in people...
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Average age of stroke victims is getting younger according to new figures released today by PHE
The average age of stroke victims is getting younger according to new figures released today by Public Health England.
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Controlling inflammation that arises in atherosclerosis and after a stentHeriot Watt University, Edinburgh | Professor Stephen Yarwood
Dr Stephen Yarwood is studying ways to combat chronic inflammation, a key part of heart and circulatory disease. In conditions like atherosclerosis, when blood vessels narrow with fatty plaques, chronic inflammation causes excessive leakine...
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Using powerful MRI technology to find out the causes of lacunar strokeUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Hugh Markus
Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a disease affecting the small blood vessels of the brain. It can lead to a lacunar stroke – a type of stroke which happens when one of the small blood vessels deep within the brain becomes blocked. ...
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PUBLICATION
Stroke Statistics 2009Book, 108 pages, published on 04/01/2009
Statistics on the Stroke in the UK 2009.
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Understanding heart injury after a heart attack through advanced imaging studiesUniversity of Leeds | Dr Erica Dall Armellina
The BHF has awarded an Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship to Dr Erica Dall Armellina from the University of Oxford to launch an imaging programme which will use innovative techniques to look at injury to heart muscle in patients who ...