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King's College London | Professor Sven Plein

Heart patients commonly need to undergo imaging of their heart and vessels to identify what is wrong or to understand the extent of any damage (for example, after a heart attack). The benefit of MRI compared with some other tests is that it...

The construction of a world-leading heart and lung research centre in Cambridge – which we part funded – is one step closer after the building reached its highest point of construction this week.

Before the mid-1970s, there was no treatment for heart attacks apart from rest and pain relief. BHF-funded research helped change that.

A quick and cheap blood test could help doctors to spot people at high risk of death following a suspected heart attack, according to research published in PLOS Medicine and funded by us.

Research funded by the British Heart Foundation has found that having diabetes increases the risk of dying from the effects of a heart attack by around 50 per cent

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Cardiff University | Dr William Ford

The PhD student supervised by Dr William Ford is studying biologically active substances called amines to uncover their effects on our heart and circulatory system. As well as occurring naturally in our diets, amines are found in many o...

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University of Oxford | Professor Kazem Rahimi

Supervised by Professor Kazem Rahimi, this PhD student is developing a new computer model to help doctors care for people with heart failure. Heart failure, when the heart cannot pump blood effectively around the body, severely impacts h...

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Future heart attacks could be better prevented in people visiting their GP with unexplained chest pain, after researchers we've funded developed the clearest picture yet of the factors that put them at higher risk.

Researchers will study a group of proteins called connexins that are believed to play a crucial role in clot formation.