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14 delicious heart-healthy porridge ideas
Banish breakfast boredom with our porridge variations, which will help you towards your 5-a-day as well as making breakfast more interesting.
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The link between sleep problems and heart diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Andrew Steptoe
BHF Professor Andrew Steptoe and Professor Mika Kivimaki from University College London are trying to understand the link between sleep problems and the risk of heart disease. There is an association between these, but it is not known wheth...
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How do heart forming cells in the womb influence congenital heart defects and adult heart disease?Newcastle University | Professor Deborah Henderson
Sometimes, the aorta and pulmonary artery (the arteries that carry blood away from the heart to the lungs and the rest of the body) do not properly form in the foetus. Some of these malformations are life-threatening at birth whereas others...
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Why do people with coronary heart disease develop subsequent heart problems?University College London | Dr Riyaz Patel
Millions of people in the UK are living with coronary heart disease. Many of these people will unfortunately go on to have more heart problems, such as heart attack, heart failure and heart rhythm disturbance (arrhythmia). While we know muc...
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Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2015
Our 2015 statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).
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Gogglebox star swaps the sofa for our 100k London to Brighton trek
Alex Michael, star of hit TV series, Gogglebox, will join around 1,000 people on our London to Brighton trek over 25 - 26 June. The Brighton-based reality TV star has 30 hours to complete the challenge as she helps raise vital funds for our life saving research.
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An initiative supporting research into heart disease preventionMedical Research Council | Unknown National Prevention Research Initiative
Heart and circulatory disease cause thousands of deaths in the UK each year. The British Heart Foundation has awarded £1million over the next 5 years to continue its support for The National Prevention Research Initiative, a collaboration b...
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Funding for personalised stroke and heart disease treatments
Personalised treatments for strokes and heart disease is closer thanks to ongoing BHF research funding at the University of Reading.
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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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Why is fibrinogen phosphorylated in heart disease?University of Leeds | Professor Khalid Naseem
Dr Kerrie Smith and her colleagues at the University of Leeds are studying why a protein called fibrinogen undergoes a chemical process called phosphorylation, and why high levels of phosphorylated fibrinogen are found in people with athero...