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What can heart researchers learn from astronauts in space?
Fifty years ago, humans set foot on the moon for the first time and history was made. We now know that weightlessness in space affects both the heart and circulatory system.
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9 things we learnt at the UK's largest heart conference
Our top picks from the British Cardiovascular Society conference 2021, where leading cardiologists and researchers presented fascinating research.
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Finding out why exercise causes heart rhythm disturbances in long QT syndromeQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker
People with a type of inherited heart condition called long QT syndrome are at risk of abnormal heart rhythms. These abnormal heart rhythms put people at risk of sudden cardiac death, particularly during or following exercise. Long QT syndr...
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What controls how heart muscle cells contract?Cardiff University | Dr Nia Thomas
Dr Nia Lowri Thomas and her team at Cardiff University are studying the processes that control how heart muscle cells contract during each heartbeat and what goes wrong in abnormal heart rhythms. For heart muscle cells to contract, calci...
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Heart palpitations
A heart palpitation is when you suddenly become aware of your heartbeat pounding or beating more quickly than usual. Learn more about the causes, symptoms and treatment.
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Shortness of breath: why it happens and tips to manage it
Senior Cardiac Nurse, Ruth Goss, explains why heart conditions like heart attack and heart failure cause breathlessness, and how breathing techniques can help.
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Working out the cause of abnormal heart rhythms in Rett syndromeUniversity of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox
Professor Jules Hancox and his colleagues at the University of Bristol are studying the causes of abnormal heart rhythms in Rett Syndrome, a condition caused by faults in a gene called MECP2. In Rett Syndrome, children initially thrive, but...
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Predicting heart rhythm disturbance and heart failure in adult congenital heart diseaseImperial College London | Dr Sonya Babu Narayan
Thanks to advances in treatment, most babies born with congenital heart disease survive to adulthood but many are at risk of sudden death from unexpected heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmia). Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan has been awarded an Int...
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Finding tiny changes in the heart’s electrics that can stop it staying in rhythm.University College London | Dr Ivan Kadurin
Irregular heart rhythms – called arrhythmias – can be life-threatening. They come in many forms with the most common type, atrial fibrillation, affecting more than a million people in the UK alone. Arrhythmias occur when there is a fault in...
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