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The new normal: adapting to life with a heart condition
Life can change in many ways after a serious heart event or diagnosis. Here are tips from an expert and fellow readers on how to adjust to the new normal.
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Long Covid: symptoms, tests and treatment
Long Covid is the term given to the long-lasting symptoms Covid-19. Learn more about symptoms, how long it can last, treatments and support.
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Living alone with a heart condition
Do you live alone and have a heart condition? Find out how stay on top of your symptoms and medication, and what to do when you're feeling unwell.
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How autoimmune disease affects your heart
Discover why autoimmune conditions like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis increase heart attack and stroke risk. Learn how you can protect your heart.
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Understanding how calcium channels keep the heartbeat in syncUniversity of Dundee | Professor Timothy Hales
Dr William Fuller and his colleagues at the University of Dundee are studying calcium channels, which are tiny pores on the surface of heart muscle cells. They are essential for the heart to contract in response to electrical stimulation du...
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Investigating the heart cell's response to stretch in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Katja Gehmlich
The heart responds to repeated exercise and other stresses by becoming bigger in a process known as cardiac hypertrophy. In the inherited disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), hypertrophy is abnormal and takes place in the absence of e...
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Using data for a complete and individual picture of calcium signalling in the heartKing's College London | Dr Steven Niederer
Data scientists are developing ways to identify people who are vulnerable to heart side-effects from certain medicines. With every heartbeat, electricity travels across the heart and activates its muscle cells to contract. The chemical sig...
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Improving the lives of patients with tetralogy of FallotImperial College London | Professor Michael Gatzoulis
Tetralogy of Fallot affects approximately one in every 3,600 births. It is the most common cyanotic congenital heart defect present at birth (where the baby’s skin has a blue appearance because it is not receiving enough oxygen-carrying blo...
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Studying thickening at the tip of the heart in athletes and non-athletesUniversity College London | Professor James Moon
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a form of heart muscle disease that can be caused by faults in certain genes. It causes the heart muscle wall to thicken abnormally and people with these changes are at risk of dying suddenly from danger...
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Identifying how beta-blockers might prevent heart muscle damage from pulmonary hypertensionUniversity of Leeds | Professor Edward White
Pulmonary hypertension is a serious condition that affects blood vessels in the lung and can lead to heart failure affecting the right side of the heart. Medicines called beta-blockers reduce the effect of chemicals such as adrenaline on th...