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  • RESEARCH

    Studying a master switch that underlies heart hypertrophy

    University College London | Dr Vishwanie Budhram-Mahadeo

    The heart’s specialised muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, help pump blood around the body. Stress or damage can force the heart to work harder, which causes the cells to adapt to the workload by growing larger, a process called hypertrop...

  • Regular paracetamol use linked to higher blood pressure

    Long-term paracetamol use could increase the risk of heart disease and strokes in people with high blood pressure, according to research we've funded and published in Circulation.

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    Endoglin and high output heart failure

    Newcastle University | Professor Helen M Arthur

    Endoglin is a protein on the surface of the endothelial cells that make up the inner lining of blood vessels, and is needed for normal blood vessel development and growth. When endoglin is missing from endothelial cells, the heart enlarges ...

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    Understanding how human stem cells turn into heart cells

    University of Cambridge | Dr Andreia Sofia Bernardo

    The human heart develops very early in the embryo. So it is unsurprising that heart malformations are amongst the leading causes of birth defect-related deaths. Currently, we do not fully understand how, during development, human stem cells...

  • 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.

  • 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.

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    Developing smarter heart valves that last longer

    University of Bristol | Professor Gianni D Angelini

    BHF Professor Gianni Angelini is looking for ways to prolong the life of biological prosthetic heart valves used to replace faulty valves in people with heart valve disease. Many people with heart valve disease need little or no treatme...

  • Incidence and prevalence - Prevalence by local authority

    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.

  • Advances in heart transplants

    Read how our work has helped improve heart transplants and make more organs available.

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