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University of Cambridge | Dr Murray Clarke

Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty material inside arteries, and it causes most heart attacks and strokes. An important process in atherosclerosis is inflammation within the blood vessel wall. This is thought to be caused in part by d...

Professor Cathie Sudlow, Director of the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, has been named as the first Chief Scientist of Health Data Research UK

Our expert explains how to manage in hot weather if you've been told to limit your fluids for heart failure.

Don’t be set in your ways – getting active, eating well and losing weight can help you stay healthy well into old age, as two experts tell Rachael Healy.

We will continue to support the brightest minds and best ideas to advance the scale, breadth and impact of our research into cardiovascular diseases.

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University of Nottingham | Professor Michael Symonds

Healthy people have an optimal amount of body fat which is made up of white (considered to be ‘bad’ when present in excess) and beige (thought to be ‘good’) fat cells. Some of these fat cells are located around certain parts of the heart an...

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University of Oxford | Dr Mathilda Mommersteeg

Dr Mathilda Mommersteeg and her colleagues at the University of Oxford are studying an unusual fish in the hope it may reveal clues to repairing heart muscle damaged by a heart attack. Astyanax mexicanus is an extraordinary species of fi...

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University of Glasgow | Dr Antony Workman

Atrial fibrillation is the most common abnormal heart rhythm. Also known as AF, it mostly affects people over 55, and greatly increases the risk of having a stroke. Normally, the heart’s natural pacemaker sends out regular electrical impuls...

Len Drane, from Treharris, thought he was a fit and healthy, rugby-playing, father-of-three when he had a heart attack playing golf in 2004.