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University of Oxford | Professor Manuela Zaccolo

Professor Manuela Zaccolo is studying heart failure, where the heart is unable to pump hard enough to deliver enough blood around the body and for which there is currently no cure. Some of the drugs used to treat heart failure work by bl...

The first patient has undergone surgery in a landmark clinical trial we are funding which aims to reduce deaths from sudden cardiac arrests.

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University of Manchester | Dr Christopher Miller

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name for a group of conditions that cause severe breathing difficulties. A third of people with COPD also have heart failure. You might expect this to be because the two diseases share ris...

Weak handshake could be sign of a failing heart. Hand grip strength could be used as a simple measure of heart health, according to new research published today in PLOS ONE and funded by the BHF.

BHF-funded researchers are using stem cell ‘heart-in-a-dish’ technology - originally created to explore potential treatments for heart failure - to help understand how and why coronavirus (Covid-19) impacts the heart.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Philip Eaton

The build-up of scar tissue in the heart in response to injury such as a heart attack - a process called fibrosis - is a contributing factor to heart failure. During this process, some heart muscle cells change their identity and become fi...

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University of Manchester | Professor Mark R Boyett

‘Heart block’ is when the electrical impulse that signals the heart to beat fails to pass from the top to the bottom of the heart. As a result, the chambers at the bottom of the heart (the ventricles) fail to pump blood to the lungs, brain ...

A study links severe acid reflux to a 27% higher heart attack risk. We unpack the findings, media coverage, and what it means for your heart health.

Esteemed barrister Mary Poku talks about her heart transplant surgery, performed 36 years ago by BHF-funded and world-renowned surgeon Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub.