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King's College London | Professor Rene Botnar

Atherosclerosis – the build-up of fatty plaques inside artery walls - is associated with an increased risk of a heart attacks or strokes. If these plaques rupture, they can cause a blood clot to form and block the blood supply to parts of t...

BHF Professor Sven Plein explains what cardiac tumours are, and tells Senior Cardiac Nurse Emily McGrath why spotting them early is important.

Turning Back The Tide is our new five-point plan to improve outcomes for people with or at risk of heart and circulatory diseases. Find out more.

Largest trial of its kind, involving two BHF Professors, shows patients having heart surgery do not benefit from doctors waiting for them to become severely anaemic before giving a blood transfusion.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Nicholas Jones

Heart transplantation may be the only option available for some patients with irreversibly damaged and failing hearts. But the donor heart can be rejected by the person’s immune system. Although certain types of immune cells are responsible...

We've been announced as the charity of the year for the 2022 TCS London Marathon, we're aiming to raise £3 million for research to help heal hearts.

We talk about how your congenital heart condition may affect sex and your relationships. We cover medicines, contraception, safety and having a baby

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University of Leeds | Dr Carrie Ferguson

People who have heart failure can sometimes find it difficult to carry out day-to-day activities because they experience breathlessness or leg tiredness. This means they may have difficulty with exercise, and they are sometimes said to have...

Scientists at The University of Manchester are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help unravel the secrets of gene mutations that can lead to babies being born with abnormalities in their hearts. Dr Kathryn Hentges and her team hope the two-year project, funded by the British Heart Foundation, will provide patients and clinicians with new knowledge on the causes of congenital heart diseases and provide families with options in reproductive choices.