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Find out if catching up on sleep on Saturdays and Sundays could really lower your risk of heart disease.

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University of Leeds | Professor Derek S Steele

During heart failure, changes in the heart reduce its ability to pump blood efficiently to the brain and body. One important change during heart failure is disruption to a critical process called calcium signalling. Calcium plays an importa...

What is an idiopathic heart condition? We ask Chloe MacArthur, Senior Nurse at the British Heart Foundation to explain.

The report shows that despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, we were able to fund around £52m of new research grants in 2020/21 as well as fulfil our funding commitments to the world-leading researchers we have already made.

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University of Edinburgh | Professor John J Mullins

In 2008 the BHF began a £34 million investment strategy to support four top UK universities as BHF Centres of Research Excellence, aiming to secure the UK’s future as a world-leading force in heart research. One of these institutions was th...

Heart valve disease is when one or more of your heart valves do not work like they should. This can affect your blood flow and put extra strain on your heart.

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University College London | Professor Stephen Moss

Professors Stephen Moss and John Greenwood from University College London are interested in the growth of new blood vessels (a process called angiogenesis). This growth is an important repair process in the body. However, inappropriate grow...

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University of Sheffield | Dr Victoria Ridger

Understanding how atherosclerosis develops and progresses may reveal new ways to treat the condition in the future. In atherosclerosis, the large blood vessels in our bodies ‘fur up’ with fatty plaque deposits and blood flow is restricted t...

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University of Glasgow | Dr Jonathan Taylor

As well as its early heart development being similar to mammals, the zebrafish embryo is transparent, which makes it ideal to study how the heart first starts to grow and beat. But the tiny zebrafish heart beats 150 times per minute, which ...