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Is porridge good for you?
Find out if porridge is good for weight loss, cholesterol and diabetes, with answers from British Heart Foundation Senior Dietician Tracy Parker
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Understanding the causes of high blood pressure in young adultsUniversity of Bristol | Dr Emma Hart
The number of young adults (aged 18-40 years) with high blood pressure, known as hypertension, is rising. This is worrying because high blood pressure is a leading cause of heart and circulatory disease. It is not clear why young people g...
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Understanding the causes of short QT syndromeUniversity of Manchester | Professor Henggui Zhang
BHF has awarded a 3-year PhD studentship totalling around £100,000 to take place in the Biological Physics Group at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester under the supervision of Professor Henggui Zhang and Professor...
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Does bad fat around small arteries cause high blood pressure?University of Manchester | Dr Adam Greenstein
High blood pressure (hypertension) and obesity are important causes of cardiovascular death. Furthermore, there is a relationship between these factors: as body weight increases, blood pressure rises. Until recently there has been no explan...
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How do genetics make some people ‘fatter but healthy’University of Exeter | Professor Tim M Frayling
In general, being overweight or obese is linked to a higher risk of heart and circulatory diseases. However, some people who are overweight do not have this increased risk, and experts believe this is due to the way fat is distributed insid...
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Monitoring heart valve disease by improving the reliability of echocardiographyImperial College London | Professor Darrel Francis
People with moderately narrowed or leaky heart valves, mostly the mitral valve or aortic valve, need to have ultrasound scans to determine when they need an operation. But the technique used to monitor severity, called echocardiography, alt...
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Sequencing every step in the transformation of stem cells into heart cellsUniversity of East Anglia | Professor Andrea E Munsterberg
Researchers are untangling the complex genetic interactions during heart cell development, to underpin stem cell treatments for heart disease. When the heart develops in the embryo, stem cells quickly change to become early heart cells, ...
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Seed oils: why they're good for your heart
We investigate claims that seed oils like sunflower, rapeseed and soyabean high in omega-6 fatty acids increase inflammation and the risk of cardiovascular disease. Discover BHF’s verdict.
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Understanding the role of hibernating cells in atherosclerosisUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Murray Clarke
Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty material inside arteries, and it causes most heart attacks and strokes. An important process in atherosclerosis is inflammation within the blood vessel wall. This is thought to be caused in part by d...
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