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Our research has shown that women don’t get the same care for heart attacks as men, which leads to unnecessary deaths. We’ve been funding research to understand and address the reasons why women miss out on heart attack treatments.

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Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano

One of the challenges in studying heart diseases is developing more accurate ways to replicate what happens inside the body. Because the cells of the heart work under constantly changing physical and chemical conditions, they have unique ...

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University of Leicester | Professor Umesh Kadam

After a cancer diagnosis, doctors investigate whether people also have any existing heart and circulatory diseases. This is because many cancer treatments have side effects on the heart, and the type and intensity of treatment needs to be p...

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University of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox

The heart’s ability to pump blood depends on co-ordinated electrical activity generated by molecules in heart cells called ‘ion channels’. One of these channels is called hERG, and is essential for normal heart function. However, many drugs...

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.

Professor Sanjay Sharma uses his funding from the BHF to help answer big questions about the heart health of athletes.

The debate, led by Jim Shannon, MP for Strangford, Northern Ireland, detailed the seismic disruption to heart care in England and Northern Ireland over the last two years.

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University of Oxford | Professor David Paterson

Injury to the heart muscle caused by a heart attack or high blood pressure can lead to heart failure, where it lacks the power to pump blood around the body efficiently. This is also associated with an increase in the release of a chemical ...