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King's College London | Professor Mathias Gautel

Inherited heart muscle diseases, or cardiomyopathies, are frequent causes of heart failure and sudden cardiac death in adults and children. One heart muscle disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), is often caused by faults in the geneti...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Folma Buss

Dr Folma Buss is studying proteins involved in a process called autophagy in heart cells, which can lead to heart disease if it goes awry. The word ‘autophagy’ is derived from the Greek words ‘auto’ meaning ‘self’, and ‘phagy’ meaning ‘...

2019 edition of our statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).

2020 edition of our statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).

Find out what these people have learned from living with a heart condition and what tips they’d give to others

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.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Diego Villar Lozano

Genetic studies have identified hundreds of small changes in the DNA sequence (known as variants) linked to an increased risk of heart disease. Some of these variants sit within the stretches of DNA sequence that carry the codes for our gen...

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.