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From AI technology that can predict heart attacks to a potential new drug for incurable vascular dementia, the BHF has had a great year of scientific discoveries, each bringing us one step closer to making heart and circulatory disease a thing of the past.

What a year it's been for our community of researchers. Not only have they continued their life-saving research into heart and circulatory diseases, but some redirected their expertise to join the fight against coronavirus. Let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the BHF’s research highlights in 2020.

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Exercise helps everyone live a happier and healthier life. If you have heart and circulatory disease it can help manage your condition and get you feeling great.

Find out why women who have heart attacks face poorer care than men, and what we're doing to change this.

Discover why autoimmune conditions like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis increase heart attack and stroke risk. Learn how you can protect your heart.

BHF's Chief Scientific and Medical Officer explains how a healthy lifestyle, medicines and the help of new science could help fewer people have heart attacks in the future.

Professor Darrel Francis, a professor of cardiology, answers common queries including: are statins safe, are there side effects, what’s a low-dose statin, and can you drink alcohol on statins?

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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...