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Can we better predict sudden cardiac death risk from an ECG?University College London | Professor Pier Lambiase
Internal cardiac defibrillators can prevent dangerous heart rhythms by delivering a shock to the heart to restart normal pacing. However, it is difficult to accurately predict which patients will develop a lethal heart rhythm and should rec...
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Chemical messengers in heart failure and hypertrophyUniversity of Oxford | Professor Manuela Zaccolo
Cardiac hypertrophy is when cells in the heart grow too large and cannot pull together efficiently to produce the heartbeat; this can lead to heart failure. One important change that can happen during heart failure is disruption to a proces...
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British Heart Foundation pays tribute to Sir Terence English
British Heart Foundation pays tribute to Sir Terence English, the surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK, who has died aged 93
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Heart attack risk decreased in new mothers by self-monitoring blood pressure at home
Research we've funded has found that self-monitoring blood pressure after giving birth could help to cut new mothers’ risk of future heart disease and strokes.
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Searching for ways to treat abnormal heart rhythmsUniversity of Bristol | Professor Neil Marrion
Professor Neil Marrion and colleagues at the University of Bristol are investigating ‘SK’ channels in the upper chamber of the heart, to see if they hold the key to treating abnormal heart rhythms. For the heart muscle to beat in synchron...
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What is the British Heart Foundation Diet?
Despite the name, the British Heart Foundation diet has nothing to do with the BHF. Our expert discusses the plan's faults and offers up some healthy diet tips.
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How does psychological stress affect your heart and blood vessels?
We know that being under stress, whether work-related, financial, or emotional can lead to ill health. But what does it mean to be stressed? And what does it mean for our health? In part one of this BHF series about stress and the heart we look at psychological stress - the ancient defence still trying to protect us to this day.
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How t-tubules develop in the heartUniversity of Manchester | Dr Katharine Dibb
Heart cells from the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles) are marked by deep grooves called transverse (t)-tubules, which are important for normal contraction of the heart. Heart cells from the upper chambers (atria) were thought to lac...
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New scan to predict heart failure risk after a heart attackImperial College London | Dr Pettahandige de Silva
The damage that occurs during a heart attack puts people at risk of heart failure in later life. It’s therefore essential to get an accurate picture of the damage to the heart muscle that has happened during the heart attack. Diffusion ten...
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A clinical trial testing if intensive treatment of a heart attack benefits older peopleNewcastle University | Dr Vijay Kunadian
Dr Vijay Kunadian and her colleagues at the University of Newcastle are finding out if older, frailer patients could benefit from a procedure to restore blood supply to the heart muscle following a heart attack. As people live longer, mo...