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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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Identifying how beta-blockers might prevent heart muscle damage from pulmonary hypertensionUniversity of Leeds | Professor Edward White
Pulmonary hypertension is a serious condition that affects blood vessels in the lung and can lead to heart failure affecting the right side of the heart. Medicines called beta-blockers reduce the effect of chemicals such as adrenaline on th...
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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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When, where and what changes occur in cells in the heart during heart failure?Imperial College London | Dr Michela Noseda
Heart failure affects millions of people around the world. During heart failure, the heart is unable to pump strongly enough to meet the day-to-day demands of the body. It can also lead to electrical faults in the heart. Now, researchers in...
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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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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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PUBLICATION
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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Heart & Circulatory Disease Statistics 2022
2020 edition of our statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).
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Heart & Circulatory Disease Statistics 2023
2023 edition of the BHF statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).