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Researchers at the University of Aberdeen are working to identify people with the lung condition chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who may also have an undiagnosed heart condition.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker

Professor Andrew Tinker and his team at Queen Mary University of London are investigating proteins on the cell surface called ATP-sensitive potassium channels to find out their role in heart and circulatory disease. As well as letting p...

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University of Oxford | Professor David Greaves

Atherosclerosis, where the inner lining of blood vessels becomes ‘furred up’ with fatty plaque, is the underlying cause of angina, heart attacks and strokes. In areas of atherosclerosis, specialist inflammatory cells are activated by the da...

New research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) could help to lower the risk of death by heart and circulatory conditions in people living with chronic kidney disease.

Through our membership of the European Heart Network we’re pledging to play a leading role in a global coalition to reduce the death and suffering caused by heart and circulatory disease worldwide.

The BHF-PROTECT-TAVI trial tested whether a cerebral embolic protection device can help prevent stroke after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

A simple cheek swab test, being developed with funding from us, could detect children who have arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, according to research being presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s annual congress in Madrid.

Research has found that people who spend more time watching TV are at higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, regardless of their genetic makeup.

We’ve funded research that helped show the value of MRI scans for children with congenital heart disease, as well as improving the scans and making them more available.

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University of Leeds | Dr Vijayalakshmi Deivasikamani

The heart continuously pumps blood into the blood vessels, exerting a force on the walls of the blood vessels. It’s long been thought that this pressure is ‘sensed’ somehow by the specialist cells that line the vessels, and converted into s...