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RESEARCH
Do RIP proteins control life and death in heart muscle cells?University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk
Professor Angela Clerk is studying how heart muscle cells die after a heart attack to identify points where we could intervene and prevent it. The team is studying a new form of cell death called necroptosis, which could be important in the...
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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).
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How blood vessel smooth muscle cells become syntheticUniversity of Warwick | Dr Anne Straube
The walls of blood vessels are lined by cells that contract or relax to control blood flow. These cells are important for repairing the vessel wall after an injury. To do this, the cells become ‘synthetic’: they produce and reorganise prote...
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Heart & Circulatory Disease Statistics 2024
2024 edition of the BHF statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).
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Scientists grow contracting muscle cells from human blood
Researchers we fund have successfully grown smooth muscle cells in a dish from a small sample of blood and have shown that these behave in similar ways to those found in blood vessels.
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The link between heart disease and Alzheimer’s diseaseImperial College London | Professor James Scott
Dr James Scott and colleagues from Imperial College London will investigate how factors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease also increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease potentially by damaging the blood brain barrier. The ...
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PUBLICATION
Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2010Booklet, 157, published on 18/10/2010
Designed for health professionals, medical researchers and anyone else with an interest in coronary heart disease (CHD), this book details extensive statistics on coronary heart disease rates and risk factor levels, by age, gender, socio-economic group and ethnic origin, as well as regionally, nationally, internationally and over time.
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A new technique to decide the best treatment option for coronary heart disease
Our research helped to develop a new diagnostic tool to assess the severity of coronary heart disease.
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Speeding up scans to help doctors diagnose heart disease earlierImperial College London | Dr Peter Gatehouse
Studying how the heart muscle is strained when the heart beats could help with early detection of heart disease. Dr Jennifer Keegan and her team have developed a way of taking images of heart muscle strain using magnetic resonance imaging (...