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Improving how weight loss advice is given by GPsUniversity of Oxford | Professor Paul Aveyard
Around one in four adults in the UK is obese, and the levels are rising. Obesity increases the risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases, and costs the NHS around £4.2 billion a year. GPs are in a good position to guide patients to ...
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Predicting the risk of serious complications in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Oxford | Professor Dr Stefan Piechnik
Dr Stefan Piechnik and his team at the University of Oxford are developing new ways to predict which people with an inherited heart condition, called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), are more at risk of complications, so doctors can treat...
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Is the nervous system involved in abnormal heart rhythms in acquired long QT syndrome?University of Birmingham | Dr James Winter
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr James Winter is studying long QT syndrome, a disorder of the heart’s electrical system, characterised by a typical pattern on an electrocardiogram. Long QT syndrome can be inherited beca...
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How do pulmonary vessels sense low blood oxygen and what goes wrong in disease?King's College London | Dr Olena Rudyk
Blood vessels that connect the heart with the lungs, the pulmonary arteries, constrict when the amount of oxygen in the body is low (known as hypoxia). In short term hypoxia, this process is important because it directs blood to parts of th...
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12 ‘healthy’ foods surprisingly high in salt
Some healthy foods like wholemeal bread, kimchi and even low-fat cheese can be high in salt. Discover more surprising sources and easy lower-salt swaps to help reduce blood pressure.
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Finding tiny changes in the heart’s electrics that can stop it staying in rhythm.University College London | Dr Ivan Kadurin
Irregular heart rhythms – called arrhythmias – can be life-threatening. They come in many forms with the most common type, atrial fibrillation, affecting more than a million people in the UK alone. Arrhythmias occur when there is a fault in...
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