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How does high blood pressure cause scarring in people with heart failure?Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is an increasing common form of heart failure, but the mechanisms underlying the condition remain unclear. HFpEF is known to be characterised by a type of scarring called fibrosis – a p...
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Drug cabinet
The Drug Cabinet section of Heart Matters contains guides to all the common types of heart medications, with answers to frequently asked questions.
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Providing important evidence for guidelines on limiting sugars in the dietUniversity of Bath | Dr Javier Gonzalez
Government health guidelines recommend limiting the amount of sugar in our diets, but do not include sugars we consume from milk, because we know very little about how they affect blood fat levels. Dr Gonzalez has previously shown that ...
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Watch: Why is too much salt bad for you?
Eating too much salt is linked to high blood pressure, because of salt's sodium content. Watch our animation, and read seven salt-slashing tactics to help you cut down
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Can we protect against high levels of stress hormones that cause heart disease?University of Edinburgh | Dr Mark Nixon
High levels of stress hormones, called glucocorticoids, are known to cause obesity, diabetes and heart and circulatory diseases. The hormones circulate in the blood bound to another molecule called corticosteroid binding globulin (CBG), whi...
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How and when should doctors involve children in decisions about their heart surgery?University College London | Dr Katy Sutcliffe
This social science project is seeking to advance the debate on informed consent. The prospect of having any kind of medical procedure can be stressful and worrying, but often if we find out more about it and know what to expect, some of t...
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Recognition for BHF Chair of Trustees Karen Frank
BHF’s Chair of Trustees, Karen Frank, has won a Non-Executive Director Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership, governance and impact
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Reflections of research - 60 years in the making
To celebrate our 60th birthday, we asked BHF researchers past and present to send us images that told the story of our research and advances in healthcare over the past 60 years
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Why do heart cells made from stem cells trigger abnormal heart rhythms?Imperial College London | Professor Sian Harding
Supervised by Professor Sian Harding, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out why stem cells can trigger dangerous abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) when injected into the heart to repair heart muscle in animal models of he...
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Do people with heart disease have changes in the way blood vessels sense blood pressure?University of Leeds | Dr Vijayalakshmi Deivasikamani
The heart continuously pumps blood into the blood vessels, exerting a force on the walls of the blood vessels. It’s long been thought that this pressure is ‘sensed’ somehow by the specialist cells that line the vessels, and converted into s...