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University of Oxford | Professor Charalambos Antoniades

Adipose tissue is not just an inert collection of fat cells found on our legs and stomach. Adipose tissue also surrounds our blood vessels and it’s now known that it secretes proteins, called adipokines, which have biological effects. One o...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Neena Kalia

In heart failure, the heart cannot pump blood around the body as well as it used to and people become extremely tired and short of breath. Heart failure usually occurs after the heart muscle becomes damaged from a heart attack and, in sever...

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Imperial College London | Professor John Pepper

Heart failure is a common condition, and the number of people with advanced heart failure continues to increase. We need new treatments that improve patients’ symptoms and extend life. Mechanical pumps can be used to help the heart beat mor...

Our analysis of NHS England data shows one in four people are waiting over four months for their heart operations or other heart procedures.

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans have found heart damage in around 50 per cent of patients whose blood tests had shown they had some degree of heart injury whilst hospitalised with severe Covid-19 infections.

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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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Imperial College London | Professor Prakash P Punjabi

Supervised by Prakash Punjabi, a Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying cells within the heart called fibroblasts and how they can support the growth of new heart tissue. Fibroblasts help the body to repair itself after injury. But ...

Prevalence is the proportion of a particular population found to be affected by a medical condition - in this case a heart and circulatory disease such as coronary heart disease, or a risk factor such as high blood pressure.

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