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University College London | Professor Richard Morris

In the UK, millions of people are living with coronary heart disease (CHD) and older people die in winter from CHD more than any other time of year. We don’t know why cold weather affects heart disease, but haemostasis – the process that co...

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University of Oxford | Dr Thomas Parks

Rheumatic fever is a condition that is common in the developing world. It is caused by infection with a bacterium called group A streptococcus. Sometimes children and young adults who have had rheumatic fever go on to develop rheumatic hear...

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University of Kent | Dr Neil Kad

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited heart muscle disease. If you have the condition, the muscular wall of your heart becomes thickened, making the heart muscle stiff. This thickening makes it harder for your heart to pump blood out ...

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University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole

Chest pain (angina) and heart attacks are caused by atherosclerosis, a condition that develops over years as fatty deposits called plaques build up in the artery walls. If a fatty plaque ruptures, a clot can form that blocks a vessel leadin...

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University College London | Dr Paul Frankel

The circulation system develops in the unborn baby in the earliest weeks and months of life. The human body has three main types of vessels: arteries that transport oxygenated blood from the heart to the organs, veins to carry poorly-oxygen...

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University of Liverpool | Dr Guozheng Wang

Dr Guozheng Wang and his colleagues at the University of Liverpool are investigating what goes wrong in the circulation of people who are critically ill, for example, those with severe infection or after severe trauma. In critical illness...