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University of Oxford | Professor Paul Leeson

Previous studies have shown that being born prematurely can increase your risk of high blood pressure and stroke in adult life. Professor Paul Leeson and colleagues are using sophisticated imaging techniques to analyse the blood vessels in ...

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University of Sheffield | Professor Allan Lawrie

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an uncommon but fatal condition where the blood pressure in the lungs is too high. The disease is driven by a progressive thickening of the blood vessels in the lung. As part of the disease process, ...

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University of Leeds | Professor Peter J Grant

Blood clots inside arteries can prevent blood from flowing and so cause illness and death. This is what happens inside the coronary artery to cause a heart attack. A blood clotting protein called FXIII-A strengthens blood clots and may wors...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell

The BHF have awarded a grant to Professor Nick Morell at the University of Cambridge to establish a cohort of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and their families throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The cohort will ...

New research has suggested that vegans take twice as many sick days as the average worker. We look behind the headlines.

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University of Cambridge | Dr Matthew Harper

Dr Matthew Harper is supervising a PhD student who will develop a new research model to study thrombosis (when blood clots form inside blood vessels) that is less reliant on animals. Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots b...

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University of Bristol | Professor David Murphy

High blood pressure (hypertension) affects around one in three adults in England and Scotland and significantly increases a person’s risk of developing heart disease, heart failure and stroke. Scientists have struggled to pinpoint the exact...