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10 restaurant-style meals you can make in your own kitchen
Missing the gourmet meal experience? Try some of these delicious heart-healthy restaurant-style recipes.
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Could your smart watch alert you to risk of sudden death?
Researchers have developed a new algorithm that could, in future, enable wearable technology to warn those at risk of dangerous heart rhythm changes. The research, which was presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference, found that the algorithm could use ECGs to accurately identify people at highest risk of being hospitalised or dying due to arrhythmias.
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Centre for Cardiovascular Drug Target DiscoveryUniversity of Oxford | Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe
Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty plaques in the walls of blood vessels which causes coronary heart disease. Pioneering work by BHF funded scientists is underpinning efforts to identify new medicines that can help control and prevent...
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Do anti-epileptic drugs prevent sudden cardiac death in people with CPVT?University of Oxford | Dr Charalampos Sigalas
CPVT1 is a rare inherited disease that affects children and young adults. It causes disturbances to the heart rhythm (arrhythmias) and can lead to sudden cardiac death. CPVT1 is caused by a genetic mutation of a protein called ryanodine re...
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Annual Report and Accounts 2015Booklet, published on 05/10/2015
The fight for every heartbeat is powered by research, and with your help we’re driving the fight forward as the UK’s leading independent funder of heart research. Read our 2015 Annual Review.
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BHF’s gender pay gap closed further in 2020, shows new report
British Heart Foundation shares its Gender Pay Report for 2020, demonstrating that the pay gap has continued to close.
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Tom Lockyer returns to stadium where his life was saved
Football fans from Luton Town and AFC Bournemouth joined forces with the British Heart Foundation to raise awareness of CPR and funds for lifesaving heart research at their rescheduled game that was abandoned after Tom Lockyer’s cardiac arrest.
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How do genetics make some people ‘fatter but healthy’University of Exeter | Professor Tim M Frayling
In general, being overweight or obese is linked to a higher risk of heart and circulatory diseases. However, some people who are overweight do not have this increased risk, and experts believe this is due to the way fat is distributed insid...
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Can a diabetes drug help people with left ventricular hypertrophy?University of Dundee | Professor Chim Lang
Blood enters the left side of the heart from the lungs, and the left side of the heart pumps it all round the body. High blood pressure can cause the left side of the heart to become enlarged because it works harder to get blood round the b...
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How does an ICD work?
ICDs can treat some life-threatening heart rhythms. We look at what an ICD does and how it is fitted.