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If you struggle to breathe, staying active can feel like a challenge. Exercise expert Laura Cartwright explains how to exercise with shortness of breath.

A routine heart scan for people with chest pain has helped to prevent around 6,000 heart attacks in the last decade, researchers we fund estimate. Our research helped to provide the evidence for the effectiveness of the scans, leading to them being recommended in clinical guidelines.

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University of Hull | Professor Khalid Naseem

Anti-platelet drugs are prescribed to many thousands of people in the UK with coronary heart disease, angina, heart failure or heart valve disease. They interfere with small blood cells called platelets, which help the blood to clot, reduci...

Computerised tomography (CT) scanning can be useful to help diagnose heart problems and how severe they are.

Blood transfusions can be live-saving. Professor Gavin Murphy tells us why you would need a blood transfusion and what the benefits of a blood transfusion are.

Your QRISK score is a valuable tool to understand your risk of heart disease. Discover what it is, how it works, and what it means for you and your health.

We're researching the complex effects of adrenaline on the heart, particularly in 'broken heart syndrome' (Takotsubo cardiomyopathy).

Don Evitts found life after two heart attacks and bypass surgery. Get inspired.

Inherited heart conditions information including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments and prevention.

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) suppress stomach acid and are often prescribed to heart patients. We hear why from Professor Pali Hungin.