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Find out how experiences like heart attacks and cardiac arrests can cause PTSD and how PTSD symptoms are treated, with helpful tips from a specialist psychologist.

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University of Cambridge | Dr William Astle

Atherosclerosis is the disease process in which plaques containing fat and white blood cells build up in the walls of arteries. These can rupture, activating tiny blood cells called platelets to clump together and form a clot. Heart attacks...

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University College London | Dr Catherine Roberts

Our vital organs require constant nourishment with oxygen and nutrients via their blood supply. The heart’s blood supply is delivered through the coronary arteries, and if one of these becomes blocked in coronary artery disease, it causes a...

Common anti-allergy medicines could prove to be effective treatment for deep vein thrombosis, according to new research we funded.

A simple digital photograph of the back of the eye can predict a major cardiovascular event set to happen in the next decade with 70 per cent accuracy, according to research part funded by us

New research suggests that proper adherence to stains and higher doses for those at high risk would prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes

Study reveals the heart health benefits of taking a statin or apple a day.

Scientists have discovered that a compound found in green tea, currently being studied for its ability to reduce amyloid plaques in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, also breaks up and dissolves potentially dangerous protein plaques found in the blood vessels.

We've joined forces with the family of Miles Frost, who died age 31 of an undiagnosed heart condition. The Miles Frost Fund will help to fund a genetic test for families at risk of the inherited condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Neena Kalia

A heart attack occurs when an artery supplying blood to the heart becomes blocked, starving part of the heart of its blood supply. These arteries are just a few millimetres in diameter, but are large enough to be assessed by the angiogram e...