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With your support, British Heart Foundation powers lifesaving research that keeps people with their loved ones for longer.

Research funded by the British Heart Foundation has found that people with naturally lower levels of LDL cholesterol have an increased risk of diabetes.

The number of times people were hospitalised due to heart failure rose significantly in Blackpool during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research we've funded and presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.

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University College London | Professor Ian C Zachary

Professor Ian Zachary and colleagues at University College London are investigating vascular smooth muscle cells, which form an important part of the blood vessel wall. These cells are usually very stable and do not grow or move – this is v...

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University College London | Professor Eric Brunner

Since 1985, the Whitehall II study has followed the health and wellbeing of over 10,000 civil service workers. Part-funded by the BHF, it has shaped our understanding of the social causes of heart disease, including revealing that people in...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Dino Giussani

We know that conditions in the womb can trigger alterations in the development of the foetus’s heart and blood vessels. This may set the stage for heart and circulatory problems in the newborn baby, as well as increasing the risk of heart a...

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

We’re pleased to share our latest Gender Pay Gap Report and announce that our gender pay gap has closed significantly this year.