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  • Why am I always tired?

    BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse, Regina Giblin, explains how lack of oxygen to the heart and medicine side effects can cause long-term tiredness in people with heart and circulatory conditions.

  • ACE inhibitors and what they do

    ACE inhibitors are medicines used to treat high blood pressure, heart attack and heart failure. Find out how they work, types of ACE inhibitor medicines and potential side effects.

  • Warm-up exercises: 15-minute routine

    Cardiac rehab expert Hara Markos demonstrates 15-minutes of exercises you can do to warm up before exercising, including stretching exercises.

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    Can the antioxidant drug cysteamine treat atherosclerosis?

    University of Reading | Professor David S Leake

    Dr David Leake and his colleagues at the University of Reading are finding out if an antioxidant drug called cysteamine could treat atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis develops when arteries become furred up with cholesterol, and it can ca...

  • RESEARCH

    Understanding how heart cells die in heart failure

    Kingston University London | Dr Andrew Snabaitis

    Heart failure is a devastating condition that affects over half a million people in the UK, and there is currently no cure. It usually happens after a heart attack, when a section of heart tissue dies and no longer works properly. Scientist...

  • RESEARCH

    Developing new tracers that detect low oxygen levels

    King's College London | Dr Richard Southworth

    Dr Richard Southworth and his team at King’s College London are studying new radioactive tracers that could help doctors diagnose heart disease earlier. When the blood supply to the heart is restricted by narrowed or blocked arteries, tiss...

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    M123R: Better together: An end of life initiative for patients with heart failure and their families

    72 pages, published on 01/08/2010

    A study of the development and impact of the British Heart Foundation and Marie Curie Cancer Care supportive and palliative care initiative for patients with heart failure and their families.

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    Better together: An end of life initiative for patients with heart failure and their families

    Booklet, 16 pages, published on 01/08/2010

    A study of the development and impact of the British Heart Foundation and Marie Curie Cancer Care supportive and palliative care initiative for patients with heart failure and their families.

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  • RESEARCH

    Revealing how genes and other factors determine fat storage

    University of Oxford | Professor Fredrik Karpe

    Professor Fredrik Karpe at the University of Oxford is working out how genes, and factors that influence them, determine where fat is stored in our bodies and our risk of heart disease. Being overweight increases the risk of heart disease,...

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    Reducing lipid scrambling in sickle cell disease

    University of Cambridge | Dr John Stanley Gibson

    Dr John Gibson and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge are investigating how to reduce complications associated with sickle cell disease (SCD). People with SCD produce unusually shaped red blood cells that don't live as long as he...