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Investigating the potential of stem cells in the heartImperial College London | Professor Prakash P Punjabi
The BHF Clinical Research Training Fellowship is providing three years of funding totalling over £200,000 to consultant surgeon Mr Prakash Punjabi and a team at Imperial College. Together they will investigate the use of stem cells to treat...
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Reconstructing heart development to understand what causes congenital heart defectsUniversity College London | Professor Claudio Stern
The human heart begins as a simple tube, which loops and folds itself to form a four-chambered heart, containing many different types of cells. This process of embryonic development in the womb sometimes goes wrong, causing congenital heart...
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Developing a new technology to ‘see’ the cells of our heartUniversity of Leeds | Professor Jurgen E Schneider
The heart is made up of cardiac muscle and connective tissue. The way the different types of cells in the heart are arranged and joined together is important. An electrical current must be able to pass smoothly between them, and stimulate a...
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Is the heart connected to the brain?
How much you can exercise is determined by messages sent between your heart and brain. Jenny Mitchell explains.
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Developing biomarkers to personalise heart failure treatmentUniversity of Leicester | Professor Leong Ng
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is when the heart can still contract, but the heart muscle may be stiffer than normal, making it less efficient. This project aims to find signals in the blood, called biomarkers that c...
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Heart attack treatment - CvLPRIT
The team behind the CvLPRIT trial wanted to find out if all narrowed vessels should be reopened during angioplasty to treat a heart attack.
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Poorer heart health in middle age linked to increased dementia risk
People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life according to a BHF-funded study
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A new and better way of diagnosing early stage heart failure patientsKing's College London | Professor Philip Chowienczyk
Heart failure is a chronic condition that causes death and disability. It can develop as a result of injury to the heart muscle caused by a heart attack, or for other reasons. A routine test used to diagnose heart failure measures how much ...
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Heart Support Group LeafletBooklet, 1 page, published on 10/01/2010
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Could we use new diabetes medicines to reduce damage caused by heart attack?University College London | Dr Robert Bell
A heart attack occurs when an artery supplying blood to the heart becomes blocked. The heart muscle is then deprived of essential oxygen and nutrient supplies and, if left untreated, will begin to die. During a heart attack, up to half of p...