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Nicola Topping was told she had indigestion when she had chest discomfort. But later tests suggest it was probably a heart attack.

BHF-funded researchers have pioneered a new way to do heart bypass surgery, keeping the heart beating during the procedure.

Heart patients could benefit from less extensive interventions thanks to cutting-edge technology that creates 3D computer models of blood flow through the arteries that supply the heart muscle, according to research we’ve funded presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in Manchester.

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University of Oxford | Professor Damian Tyler

Our hearts need to convert fuels (sugars and fats) into energy to enable them to beat. But we know that in heart disease, this process becomes altered, and the heart muscle cannot use fuel correctly. Dr Damian Tyler, from the University...

Almost all of us have taken paracetamol or ibuprofen at some point. We explain how they work, plus what conditions each type of painkiller is best used for.

The CE-MARC-2 trial was conducted to find out if magnetic resonance scans of the heart could better select which people with coronary heart disease should undergo an angiogram.

Research funded by us is investigating if cheap, existing drugs currently used to treat other heart and circulatory diseases could help patients who have a lacunar stroke

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University of Oxford | Professor Kim A Dora

Blood flow in muscles continually changes depending on whether we are resting or active. To cope with these changes, blood vessels must adapt to meet the demands of rest and exercise. This is especially true in the heart, where vessels are ...

Learn about enjoying a happy and healthy sex life even if you have a heart condition including when you can start having sex again and why you may be experiencing a loss of sex drive or impotence.

Discover how cardiac rehabilitation can help you, and how helped others who have been through it themselves.