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  • RESEARCH

    The link between heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease

    Imperial 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 ...

  • Heart & Circulatory Disease Statistics 2024

    2024 edition of the BHF statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).

  • RESEARCH

    Speeding up scans to help doctors diagnose heart disease earlier

    Imperial 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 (...

  • PUBLICATION

    Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2010

    Booklet, 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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  • 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.

  • PUBLICATION

    Understanding coronary heart disease

    Booklets, 64 pages, published on 21/07/2025

    This booklet can help you and your loved ones understand what a diagnosis of coronary heart disease means. Order or download it for free.

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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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    Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2007

    Booklet, published on 07/05/2014

    The 2007 edition of the Coronary Heart Disease Statistics

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  • RESEARCH

    Calcium uptake and heart relaxation

    Imperial 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...

  • RESEARCH

    Stopping early stage heart disease progressing to heart failure

    Imperial College London | Dr Viola Kooij

    Hundreds of thousands of people are living with heart failure and currently there is no cure. Understanding the changes that occur in early stages of heart disease could reveal new ways to design drugs which stop patients progressing to hea...