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Could the antioxidant melatonin provide lifelong heart protection for unborn babies?University of Manchester | Dr Gina Galli
If a growing foetus is partially deprived of oxygen, due for example to or placental infection or maternal smoking, it can seriously impair the development of the heart and increase the risk of heart disease in later life. However, the way ...
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Atrial flutter
Atrial flutter is an abnormal heart rhythm that causes your heart to beat irregularly. Read more about the symptoms of atrial flutter and how it's treated and diagnosed.
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Early life influences on heart healthUniversity of Oxford | Professor Paul Leeson
Professor Paul Leeson at the University of Oxford has been awarded a Senior Clinical Research Fellowship to investigate how early life influences, like being born prematurely, could affect heart health later on in life. Professor Leeson...
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Looking inside the heart
Heart scans have come a long way, from echocardiography to CT scans and cardiac MRI. Discover how these technologies are helping patients.
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Studying better ways to identify heart scar tissue causing dangerous heart rhythm disturbancesNewcastle University | Dr Ruairidh Martin
Dr Ruairidh Martin has been awarded a travel fellowship to travel to a hospital in Bordeaux, France, for one year to enhance his research and clinical training. Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a life-threatening heart rhythm disturbance...
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How does Covid-19 affect your heart?
Find out how Covid-19 can lead to conditions such as blood clots, heart damage, palpitations and high heart rate.
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Predicting the risk of taking NSAIDs on the heartImperial College London | Professor Jane A Mitchell
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen are good at treating inflammation but may also increase a person’s chance of having a heart attack or stroke. However, exactly how they increase this risk is uncertain. NSAID...
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Developing a heart research tool using fruit fliesUniversity of Sussex | Dr Jeremy Niven
Supervised by Dr Jeremy Niven, a PhD student is studying heart cells from fruit flies to explore its use as a model for heart and circulatory disease research. Despite their obvious stark differences, fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaste...
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Obesity and heart failure: explaining the obesity paradoxUniversity of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider
Although obesity increases the chance of developing heart failure, when patients have heart failure they may live longer if they are obese. This unexpected finding is termed the 'obesity paradox' and the reasons behind it are currently unkn...
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Structure-function mapping of the heart to understand abnormal heart rhythmsUniversity of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng
Ventricular arrhythmias can lead to sudden cardiac death. There is currently no method of preventing sudden cardiac death, and there is a need to understand the underlying electrical and nervous disruption that causes the abnormal rhythm. T...