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The CE-MARC-2 trial was conducted to find out if magnetic resonance scans of the heart could better select which people with coronary heart disease should undergo an angiogram.

My daughter, 5, helped saved my life after a heart attack on Diwali – now I want to raise awareness.

Research funded by us, presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference and funded by us, has shown that the more children a mother has, the greater her risk of heart attack, stroke and heart failure.

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University of Leicester | Dr Noel W Davies

Blood pressure is maintained by the contraction of smooth muscle cells (in blood vessels called vasoconstriction) which in turn depends on an electrical difference being maintained between the inside and outside of vascular smooth muscle (t...

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Imperial College London | Professor Sian Harding

Live heart muscle cells are an invaluable tool for studying how disease affects the heart’s ability to contract. However, the traditional way of studying these cells using video tracking technology is slow because only one cell can be studi...

2025 edition of the BHF statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).

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University of Leicester | Dr Thomas Webb

Leicester researchers will uncover the function of a gene linked to heart disease. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in the UK. Our risk of developing it is determined both by our lifestyle and our genes. Recent resear...

Viagra could be used as an effective treatment in men with early stage heart failure and cardiac hypertrophy according to a new study.

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University of Cambridge | Dr Murray Clarke

Dr Murray Clarke at the University of Cambridge is working out the processes that trigger inflammation in atherosclerosis, where plaques form within the artery walls causing them to narrow. Heart attacks happen when an artery supplying the ...