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Studying genes that cause congenital heart diseaseUniversity of Manchester | Professor Bernard Keavney
BHF Professor Bernard Keavney studies the genes underlying congenital heart disease. Professor Keavney has already identified several genes involved in congenital heart disease, when the heart or major blood vessels have not formed prop...
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How is the pH inside heart cells linked to heart disease?University of Oxford | Dr Pawel Swietach
Dr Pawel Swietach and his colleagues at the University of Oxford are working out how pH influences gene activity within heart cells, and what happens in heart disease. Within healthy limits, changes in pH (how acidic or alkaline it is) can ...
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Congenital Heart Disease 2003Booklet, published on 01/06/2003
This supplement provides statistics on the burden of congenital heart disease in the UK. Published June 2003.
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How obesity in pregnancy leads to heart disease in the offspringUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Susan E Ozanne
Heart and circulatory disease is one of the UK’s biggest killers. Research to find new ways to prevent it at an early stage could make a huge difference to society. Keeping healthy during pregnancy is vital to provide a healthy environment ...
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Improving MRI scans for congenital heart diseaseKing's College London | Dr Claudia Prieto
MRI scans are used to diagnose and plan treatments for children with congenital heart defects, and follow the heart’s development and function over time. Unfortunately, MRI scans can be uncomfortable. People usually need to have an injectio...
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How variations in our DNA affect blood vessel smooth muscle cellsUniversity of Leicester | Professor Shu S Ye
Advances in technology have generated an avalanche of data about the genetics of health and disease. Leicester has been at the forefront of finding variations in a person’s genetic code that are linked to an increased risk of heart disease....
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Does congenital heart disease affect brain development?King's College London | Professor Serena Counsell
Supervised by Professor Serena Counsell, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying congenital heart disease, where heart problems develop before birth. Thanks to advances in diagnostics and heart surgery, many made possible by ...
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Is junk DNA important in heart disease?Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Andrew Smith
In this Intermediate Basic Science Fellowship Dr Andrew Smith from University College London will study regions of our DNA to find out why coronary heart disease often runs in families. We know that there are regions of our DNA that are lin...
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What goes wrong with the heart’s beat in heart disease?King's College London | Dr Elisabetta Brunello
Dr Elizabetta Brunello at King’s College London is working out how protein ‘motors’ within heart muscle cells make heart cells contract, by travelling up and down muscle filaments, like trains travelling along tracks. She wants to understan...
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How do FURIN gene faults lead to coronary heart disease?University of Leicester | Professor Shu S Ye
Professor Shu Ye and his team at the University of Leicester are working out how faults in a gene called FURIN are linked to coronary heart disease. This is just one of the genetic factors that, in combination with lifestyle factors such as...