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The brain-heart connection in health and diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Alexander Gourine
BHF-funded researchers at University College London are studying the connection between our brain and heart, and how activity through this connection declines in heart disease. Specialised nerves connect our brain to our heart. These nerve...
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Finding out why obesity leads to heart diseaseUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Antonio Vidal Puig
Obesity can lead to a number of serious or life-threatening diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. When adipose tissue cannot store any more fat, then the excess fats can go to other organs, poisoning them. This is called ‘lipotoxi...
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Searching for the causes of congenital heart diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Dr Duncan Sparrow
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common human birth defect, affecting around one in 100 babies. Heart defects can occur because of faulty genes inherited from the parents, or they can be caused by environmental factors in the womb...
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Studying inflammation in broken heart syndromeUniversity 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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Studying how a new gene can cause coronary heart diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Professor Keith Channon
Professor Keith Channon and his team at the University of Oxford are working out how a new gene is involved in atherosclerosis development. Very large studies have now identified several new genes that help to increase the risk of develo...
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New scanning methods to reveal cause and effect in heart diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Professor Robin P Choudhury
Professor Robin Choudhury and his colleagues at the University of Oxford are working out how to combine imaging techniques so they can be used to tell doctors what has happened to heart muscle after a heart attack, and what caused it. N...
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Y chromosome puts men at risk of heart disease
A new study funded by us shows that men who carry a specific type of Y chromosome are at higher risk of heart disease.
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A commonly used test could miss the most dangerous type of heart disease
More than a quarter of people with a deadly form of heart disease may be missed following current tests.
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The link between psychological stress and heart diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Andrew Steptoe
Psychological stress is thought to be linked to the development of coronary heart disease. Stress stimulates vascular inflammation, a process involved in atherosclerosis. But stress also leads to the releases of the hormone cortisol which r...
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I’m an Olympic silver medallist, yet I’ve lived my whole life with chronic heart disease
Olympic silver medallist, Roger Black, shares his journey from being diagnosed with heart disease to earning one of world’s greatest sporting accolades