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Imperial College London | Dr Adrian Chester

Researchers are searching for a non-surgical way to treat stiffened heart valves. The one-way flow of blood around the heart is maintained by valves. These flaps of tissue are pushed open by blood flowing in the correct direction, and sn...

Our 2015 statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).

A tool created by the BHF and the Strategy Unit illustrates the socioeconomic inequalities along the coronary heart disease (CHD) pathway for the first time.

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Dana Dawson

Dr Dana Dawson and her colleagues at the University of Aberdeen are studying stress-induced cardiomyopathy, also known as Takotsubo or ‘broken heart syndrome’. Broken heart syndrome presents like a heart attack, but heart arteries are f...

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Newcastle 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...

Congenital and inherited heart and circulatory disease are both conditions you are born with. Our animation explains the differences and the most common ones.

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University 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...

As National Heart Month begins, we are calling for a new focus on heart disease in Scotland, underpinned by the required investment.

Personalised treatments for strokes and heart disease is closer thanks to ongoing BHF research funding at the University of Reading.

2021 edition of our statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).