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Why have I been given potassium after heart surgery?
Senior Cardiac Nurse Julie Ward explains why you may be prescribed a potassium supplement after surgery.
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New risk calculator to help save many more lives from heart attack and stroke
A new risk calculator, developed by BHF funded researchers, will help to improve predictions of people most at risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years. The risk calculator is ready for use across Europe, and could help to save many lives.
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Government moves ahead with plans to create a smokefree generation
We’ve urged MPs to strongly support a bold new Bill that would prevent the next generation from ever smoking.
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Switching on the brain’s defence mechanisms in strokeKing's College London | Professor Giovanni Mann
Many types of antioxidants have been explored in the lab as potential stroke medicines, only to then fail when tested in clinical trials. Research has therefore shifted to focus on the cell’s own antioxidant defence mechanisms. Professor M...
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Salt in soluble paracetamol linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke
Researchers have found links between regular use of paracetamol that contains sodium and an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and dying.
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How to keep platelets under control and prevent inappropriate activation in diseaseKing's College London | Dr Kalwant S Authi
Platelets are a type of cell in our blood that are very important for stopping bleeding after an injury. Damage to blood vessels triggers a rapid series of signalling events which activates platelets, causing them to stick together and f...
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Prevention of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgeryUniversity of Leicester | Professor Gavin Murphy
Kidney injury after cardiac surgery affects over a quarter of heart operations, and increases the risk of other severe complications developing. BHF Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Gavin Murphy and colleagues at the University of Leicester, w...
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Does sodium valproate reduce the risk of stroke?University of Cambridge | Professor Hugh Markus
When blood vessels feeding the brain become blocked because of furred up arteries (atherosclerosis) or a blood clot, a stroke occurs. In 2009, around 49,000 people in the UK died following a stroke. This research will find out if an epileps...
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Research identifies new ways to try and prevent lethal blood clots
Scientists we fund have made a breakthrough in understanding the process that leads to a blood clot forming in the lungs - a condition that kills more than two thousand people in the UK each year.