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EVENT
Edinburgh Marathon Festival Team Relay
Date
24 May 2026
Location
Edinburgh
This popular running festival has a distance for all with a Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K, 5K and Team Relay going through Edinburgh city centre to Musselburgh
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RESEARCH
Understanding how small arteries work, to shed light on high blood pressureUniversity of Manchester | Dr Adam Greenstein
The pressure of the blood flowing through your arteries is continuously adjusted to your need: during exercise, your heart beats quicker and blood pressure increases to make sure your muscles receive enough oxygen and nutrients to keep work...
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The athlete’s paradox, insulin resistance and diabetesUniversity of Aberdeen | Professor Dana Dawson
Dr Dana Dawson and her team at the University of Aberdeen are investigating the ‘athlete’s paradox’: why both obese people with diabetes and trained athletes have higher levels of lipids (fat) in their muscles, but with differing impacts on...
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Enormous crocodile
Our blog from BCS 2017: Cardiology at the extremes looks at nature's most complex heart.
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On the quest for treatments for dangerous aortic aneurysms in Marfan syndromeUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Sanjay Sinha
Marfan syndrome is an inherited condition that causes problems with the body’s connective tissue. It is caused by faults in a particular gene, and is therefore passed down through families. The most severe consequence of Marfan syndrome is ...
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Diet in childhood linked to blood vessel damage in teenage years
Diets high in calories, fat and sugar in childhood can cause damage to blood vessel function, known to heighten the risk of early heart attacks and strokes, as early as adolescence according to research funded by us.
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AJ Bell Great South Run
Date
18 October 2026
Location
Southsea, Portsmouth
Take on the worlds favourite 10 mile running event, the AJ Bell Great South Run. It starts in historic Portsmouth, passing the world famous Historic Dockyard and finishing on the Southsea coast.
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Trial resumes to prevent dementia after a stroke
Research funded by us is investigating if cheap, existing drugs currently used to treat other heart and circulatory diseases could help patients who have a lacunar stroke