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Four million people are living with untreated high blood pressure, new estimates show
Four million people under the age of 65 in the UK are living with untreated high blood pressure, according to new estimates we have produced.
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Previous winners of Reflections on Research
The Reflections of Research competition started in 2005 and it's been going strong ever since with the winning images appearing in national press, on the BBC, and in exhibitions across the country. Here are the winners from previous years.
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BHF calls for urgent investment in research in the Comprehensive Spending Review
The Government has a critical opportunity in this Comprehensive Spending Review to invest in the prevention and treatment of heart and circulatory diseases.
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A survival strategy for the cells lining our blood vesselsKing's College London | Professor Albert Ferro
Professor Albert Ferro and his colleagues at King’s College London are studying how a process called apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is involved in heart and circulatory disease. Endothelial cells line the inner surface of all bloo...
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Kidney health and high blood pressureUniversity of Exeter | Dr Maarten Koeners
Dr Maarten Koeners has been awarded an Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship grant totalling nearly £471,000 over 4 years to take up a research position at the University of Bristol. He will use novel techniques in rats to study ch...
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PKC alpha: a critical protein for forming blood clotsUniversity of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole
Platelets are small cells in the bloodstream that clump together at sites of injury, triggering a clot to form to prevent excessive bleeding. Platelet clumping can be activated in diseased arteries when a fatty plaque ruptures. When this ha...
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Understanding how calcium-sensing receptors influence blood pressureSt George's, University of London | Professor Anthony Albert
Abnormal contraction of blood vessels leads to high blood pressure, which in turn is a significant risk factor for heart and circulatory diseases. Recently, a group of molecules called calcium-sensing receptors (CaSRs) have been shown to ...