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Learn about the flu and how it affects you if you live with a heart condition, including whether the flu will impact on your medication, how long it lasts, getting vaccinated and tips to help with the symptoms.

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King's College London | Dr Darlington Okonko

People with heart failure frequently have low iron levels, which can worsen their symptoms, make exercising difficult and even decrease their life expectancy. This iron deficiency could result because people with heart failure cannot absorb...

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

BHF Chair of Cardiac Surgery, Professor Gianni Angelini and his team highlight problems encountered in surgery, research them in the lab, and apply solutions.

After Javed Hussain, from London, had his first heart attack in 2016, he thought his life was over. However, his second heart attack gave him a new lease on life.

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University of Oxford | Professor Ming Lei

Tiny pores, or ion channels on the surface of heart muscle cells open and close to let electrically charged sodium, calcium and potassium ions flow into and out of heart cells and generate the electrical signal that spreads from the top of ...

Last week’s emergency mini-Budget was a missed opportunity for heart patients, failing to provide reassurance that the NHS will be there for them when they need it, and to recognise that the health of the nation is vitally important to our economic prosperity.

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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...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify people at high risk of a fatal heart attack years before it strikes – thanks to new research that we've funded.

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King's College London | Jonathan Kentish

Tetralogy of Fallot is a severe heart birth defect that requires corrective surgery. Most patients will die before the age of 20 without the surgery, but the best age at which to have the procedure is not known. The surgery can cause a hear...