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University of Cambridge | Professor Jonathan W Mant

After suffering a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or a mini-stroke, 10 to 20 per cent of people go on to have a full stroke within a month. The risk of recurrent stroke is 30 to 43 per cent within five years. This risk can be substantially...

Denis Collen, 60, from Stanmore, Middlesex, shares how a diagnosis of heart failure and diabetes spurred him to make healthy lifestyle changes.

Discover the easy tips to make a cheese board that's both flavourful and good for your heart.

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University College London | Professor Raymond J MacAllister

Pulmonary hypertension is a rare but serious condition in which high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs results in narrowing of these blood vessels. Patients can have a poor quality of life and are at risk of developing heart failu...

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King's College London | Professor Michael Marber

Only about ten per cent of people in accident and emergency departments with chest pain will be having a heart attack. Professor Michael Marber is trying to find better ways to diagnose them. Currently, doctors identify heart attack pati...

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University of Glasgow | Professor Rhian Touyz

This programme of research examines how an enzyme, Nox5, contributes to high blood pressure through the production of free radicals. High free radical levels may be due to increased production or to reduced antioxidants in cells. Although ...

A new risk calculator, developed by BHF-funded researchers, will help to identify people with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk of developing heart and circulatory disease and help them get preventative treatment to ward off future heart attacks and strokes.

Around half of people who live with their partner said the fear of causing harm would make them reluctant to give CPR if someone had a cardiac arrest in front of them, according to new data we've released by to mark Heart Month.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Nicholas Jones

Heart transplantation may be the only option available for some patients with irreversibly damaged and failing hearts. But the donor heart can be rejected by the person’s immune system. Although certain types of immune cells are responsible...

The team behind the High STEACS trial wanted to find out whether a test that can detect tiny amounts of a protein called troponin in the blood could help improve heart attack diagnosis and treatment.