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Inherited heart conditions information including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments and prevention.

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University of Birmingham | Professor Jonathan N Townend

Dr Jonathan Townend’s team from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham is researching the link between kidney disease and the development of heart disease. Changes in the kidney as a result of disease are thought to affect the heart and cir...

Ultra-processed food significantly raises the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes, according to two studies presented this weekend at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Amsterdam.

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Imperial College London | Dr Michela Noseda

Heart failure affects millions of people around the world. During heart failure, the heart is unable to pump strongly enough to meet the day-to-day demands of the body. It can also lead to electrical faults in the heart. Now, researchers in...

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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...

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Medical 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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University of Nottingham | Professor John David Brook

Congenital heart disease affects around 1 in 133 newborn babies. Genetics play a large part in this, and in many cases there are complex interactions between many different genes. A genetic test called an ‘array-CGH’ can reveal more about t...

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Imperial 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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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Professor John Kelly

Chagas disease is caused by a small parasite species called Trypanosoma cruzi. This tiny parasite infects millions of people in Latin American regions and there are around 800,000 infected people in Europe. Chagas disease can become a chron...