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How blood vessel cells change their shape and orientationUniversity of Bristol | Professor Harry Mellor
After a heart attack or stroke, the body needs to make new blood vessels to replenish the oxygen supply to tissues. To form new blood vessels, cells called endothelial cells undergo profound changes in shape and organise themselves into a t...
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Is too much sitting bad for your health?Loughborough University | Professor Mark Hamer
Many of us spend a lot of time sitting down, either sitting at a desk, driving or watching TV. But it is important to get active - physical activity reduces the risk of many diseases including heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Despite the...
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Addressing global gaps in knowledge about blood pressure treatmentUniversity of Oxford | Professor Kazem Rahimi
Advances in research have shown that reducing high blood pressure with medicines can prevent heart disease and stroke. But there remain several gaps in our knowledge, including how blood pressure treatment affects other health issues, and w...
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Do e-cigarettes help people with mental illness stop smoking?University College London | Dr Lion Shahab
People with mental illness are more likely to smoke, which may help explain why they have a shorter life expectancy. Some current smoking cessation techniques do work but, in general, people with mental health problems struggle more than ot...
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Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2010Booklet, 52 Pages, published on 10/01/2010
A supplement to the Coronary Heart Disease Statistics series, this booklet focuses on ethnic inequalities in the experience of cardiovascular disease in the UK.
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To help people to better understand the key messages behind our heart and circulatory disease data, we have created interactive data visualisations to bring our annual stats to life.
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Factor thirteen and blood clottingUniversity of Leeds | Professor Peter J Grant
Blood clots inside arteries can prevent blood from flowing and so cause illness and death. This is what happens inside the coronary artery to cause a heart attack. A blood clotting protein called FXIII-A strengthens blood clots and may wors...
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How safe is digoxin? We report on this week's news
Our Associate Medical Director, and a GP, Dr Mike Knapton writes about the recent media reports around the possible dangers of the heart failure and atrial fibrillation drug digoxin.
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Understanding how blood vessels become leakyUniversity College London | Professor Patric Turowski
Blood vessel leakage into the surrounding tissue is common in many inflammatory diseases, and can occur in people with diabetes or after a stroke. A PhD student working with Dr Patric Turowski will learn more about the link between blood ve...