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Number of Northern Ireland heart patients waiting over six months for surgery increases 30-fold
Thirty times more people are waiting over six months for cardiac surgery than a year ago, according to analysis by British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland.
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Predicting heart rhythm disturbance and heart failure in adult congenital heart diseaseImperial College London | Dr Sonya Babu Narayan
Thanks to advances in treatment, most babies born with congenital heart disease survive to adulthood but many are at risk of sudden death from unexpected heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmia). Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan has been awarded an Int...
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Mathias Gautel
Professor Gautel's team is deciphering how heart muscle cells work to enable the heart to pump.
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Developing magnetic resonance scanning methods for congenital heart diseaseImperial College London | Dr Peter Gatehouse
Supervised by Dr Peter Gatehouse, this PhD student is developing new scanning methods to monitor people born with congenital heart disease as they get older. Surgeons can repair most congenital heart defects, but patients still need to b...
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PUBLICATION
Trends in Coronary Heart Disease 1961-2011Book, published on 01/02/2011
An in-depth appraisal of how the burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) has changed across the first fifty years of the British Heart Foundation.
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Polypill could prevent heart and circulatory disease
A low-cost polypill—combining four cardiovascular drugs in a single pill—cuts the risk of major heart and circulatory disease events by a third over five years.
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Improving scans for children with heart diseaseUniversity College London | Dr Vivek Muthurangu
A technique called cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is widely used as the best method of scanning children people with heart disease. However, current CMR techniques require people to hold their breath, which children often find diff...
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Studying the role of autophagy in congenital heart diseaseNewcastle University | Dr Helen Phillips
In the UK 12 babies a day are diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, a condition or defect that develops in the womb before a baby is born. The causes underlying this wide range of conditions are not yet well understood. Many different f...
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Statins not the cause of muscle pain in most people who report symptoms
Statins are not the cause of muscle pain in over 90 per cent of people who experience symptoms, according to research we have funded presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress and published in The Lancet.
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Using stress signals to predict heart diseaseUniversity of Glasgow | Dr Paul Welsh
In this Intermediate Fellowship, Dr Welsh aims to develop biomarker tests to better predict the risk of cardiovascular disease, including a heart attack. Doctors currently use risk scores to assess how high a person’s risk of a heart attack...