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  • New blood test improves heart attack and stroke risk prediction

    A simple £5 blood test for the protein troponin could allow doctors to predict a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes with greater accuracy than ever before, according to research funded by us and published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

  • PUBLICATION

    Understanding heart failure

    Booklet, 64 pages, published on 14/06/2024

    This booklet can help you and your loved ones understand what a diagnosis of heart failure means. It includes information on diagnosis, causes, treatment and living with a heart condition. As well as steps you can take to look after your heart, and where to get support. Order or download it for free. You can also order it in large print.

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  • RESEARCH

    How do heart cells sense damage and influence repair?

    University of Leeds | Dr Neil Turner

    Dr Neil Turner and colleagues from the University of Leeds are working out if special heart cells called cardiac fibroblasts can sense cell damage in the heart, and if we can alter how they respond to improve heart repair after injury. A h...

  • BHF pays tribute to Professor Tony Gershlick

    The British Heart Foundation has paid tribute to the life and work of Professor Tony Gershlick, who sadly died on Friday the 20th of November 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Professor Gershlick was considered a ‘leading light’ interventional cardiology – a field which involves using angiograms and stents to treat heart attacks and heart disease.

  • British Heart Foundation warns that many gut-friendly foods come with a heart health catch

    The British Heart Foundation is urging people to look more closely at some popular gut-friendly foods which, while beneficial for the microbiome, may also come with hidden risks for heart health when eaten in excess.

  • What is a silent heart attack?

    Find out why some heart attacks are ‘silent’ with Professor Tim Chico.

  • RESEARCH

    Finding out how faulty heart valves form

    Newcastle University | Professor Deborah Henderson

    Professor Deborah Henderson is studying how heart valves form, and what goes wrong when babies are born with a faulty valve. Abnormalities in heart valves, particularly the aortic valves, are common in babies. Although many cause no pro...

  • Scan could help prevent deadly heart failure in cancer patients

    High-tech scanning techniques could reveal whether chemotherapy is damaging a person’s heart before any symptoms appear, according to research we've funded presented at the Global Cardio-oncology Summit in London.

  • RESEARCH

    Is the epicardium a good target for new drugs to encourage heart repair?

    University of Oxford | Professor Paul Riley

    Heart muscle cannot repair itself after injury, e.g. after a heart attack, so scientists are working to repair it using new heart muscle cells. BHF Professor Paul Riley and colleagues (University of Oxford and University College London) hav...

  • Women and heart attacks: "I felt they didn't believe I was having a heart attack"

    Carol Ighofose thought that she was having a heart attack - but she wasn't diagnosed until it was too late to save her heart from damage.

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