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A new imaging technique to help doctors spot when heart muscle becomes diseasedUniversity of Oxford | Professor Damian Tyler
Our hearts need to convert fuels (sugars and fats) into energy to enable them to beat. But we know that in heart disease, this process becomes altered, and the heart muscle cannot use fuel correctly. Dr Damian Tyler, from the University...
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Heart valve diseaseBooklets, 64, published on 10/02/2026
Order or download our free booklet on heart valve disease. It can help you and your loved ones understand your condition, treatment options and living with your condition.
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Treatments for coronary heart disease
Get our quick guide to treatments for coronary heart and circulatory disease like angioplasty and bypass surgery, what they involve and how long they last.
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Pregnancy and your heart: why it's important to plan ahead
Hear from congenital heart disease specialist, Dr Sara Thorne, on why planned pregnancy is important if you have a heart condition.
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Preventing coronary heart disease by treating gum diseaseQueen's University Belfast | Professor Gerard Linden
Gum disease is caused by bacteria that build up on the teeth, resulting in dental plaque. As the plaque progresses, the gum comes away from the teeth leaving pockets into which bacteria spread, causing inflammation and infection. During nor...
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Can the zebrafish teach us how to repair scarred heart muscle tissue?University of Bristol | Dr Rebecca Richardson
Unlike us, zebrafish can heal damage to their heart remarkably well. Although heart injury in the zebrafish can result in a scar, this later disappears and it is replaced by new, functional heart tissue. In humans, white blood cells, which ...
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Using tick saliva to treat a deadly heart condition
Proteins found in tick saliva could be used to treat a dangerous type of heart disease which can cause sudden cardiac death in young adults.
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Calcium uptake and heart relaxationImperial College London | Dr Alfonso De Simone
Calcium uptake in part of the heart muscle cell called the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is crucial for the heart to relax, and is controlled by a protein called SERCA. In dilated cardiomyopathy, a cause of heart failure, SERCA either does n...
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Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2012Book, 210 pages, published on 13/12/2012
This compendium of health statistics is designed for health professionals, medical researchers and anyone else with an interest in coronary heart disease (CHD) and cardiovascular diseases. It features extensive statistics on disease rates and risk factor levels, by age, gender, socioeconomic group and ethnic origin, as well as regionally, nationally, internationally and over time.
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Genes explain mystery heart failure in pregnant women
A new genetic discovery could explain the cause of a mysterious and potentially-deadly heart condition which affects women during or just after pregnancy.