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Exercise helps everyone live a happier and healthier life. If you have heart and circulatory disease it can help manage your condition and get you feeling great.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Dr Steffen Petersen

Osteoporosis is a condition resulting in weak and brittle bones that are more likely to break. It is common in the elderly, affecting over 3 million people in the UK, according to the National Osteoporosis Society. Heart disease and osteopo...

Is intermittent fasting dangerous for your heart? Find out what we know about time-restricted eating and how it compares to recent news headlines.

Long waits for tests could lead to more deaths from undiagnosed heart conditions.

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University of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox

Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a life-threatening condition that causes disturbances to the normal heart rhythm (arrhythmias). It occurs because of defects in molecules called ion channels which normally ensure the heart’s electrical activity ...

How much you tell people about your heart or circulatory condition is very much up to you – you are in control and can tell them as much or as little as you want.

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University of Oxford | Professor Sarah De Val

The growth of new blood vessels could help to repair the damage caused to the heart by a heart attack. But efforts to promote the growth of new blood vessels in the heart have been limited by a lack of understanding of the normal biological...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Davor Pavlovic

Arrhythmias (fast, slow or irregular heartbeats) most commonly occur in the upper chambers of the heart. Drugs used to treat arrhythmias target sodium-transporting molecules that are present in both upper and lower chambers of the heart. Ho...

Our medical expert explains what the high-sensitivity troponin test is and how it could help diagnose women who've had a heart attack.