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How to improve your posture
How we sit and stand affects our health more than we think. We share expert tips to help you improve your posture.
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PUBLICATION
Annual Report & Accounts 2012/13Booklet, 65 pages, published on 01/08/2013
Our Annual Report and Accounts shows how vital donations are powering Team BHF and its groundbreaking research.
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RESEARCH
Using allopurinol to improve the outcome for stroke patients in the UKUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Jesse Dawson
Stroke causes more than 41,000 deaths in the UK each year. There are around 152,000 strokes in the UK each year and nearly 1.2 million people living in the UK have had a stroke. These people are at high risk of another stroke, and also of a...
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BHF Corporate Partner of the Year
This award recognises the support from corporate or community partners who promote the work of BHF and raise crucial funds for lifesaving research.
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The development of a new transcatheter prosthetic mitral valveUniversity College London | Professor Gaetano Burriesci
Dr Gaetano Burriesci and colleagues at University College London have been awarded £180,000 to design and test a new artificial valve for heart patients. Their aim is to develop a prosthetic mitral valve (one of the main heart valves that c...
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A potential new anti-oxidant approach to combating atherosclerosisUniversity of Reading | Professor David S Leake
Researchers will investigate a potential new way to prevent the damaging effects of LDL cholesterol in arteries. ‘Bad’ LDL cholesterol contributes to artery disease, known as atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks. Part of the proce...
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Looking for treatments for essential thrombocythaemiaUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Cedric Ghevaert
People with the condition essential thrombocythaemia (ET) have too many platelets in the blood and are at increased risk of cardiovascular events. This is because an excess of platelets can lead to excessive clotting and blockage of the ve...
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Improving regeneration of blood vessel cells in circulatory diseasesQueen's University Belfast | Professor Alan Stitt
Belfast researchers are part of the global research effort to boost the body’s own repair systems to combat circulatory diseases. A major global research effort is underway to help the body to repair and/or grow new blood vessels to preve...
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Harnessing IGF binding protein-2 to help grow new blood vesselsUniversity of Leeds | Dr Stephen Wheatcroft
Coronary heart disease and peripheral artery disease occur when blood vessels to the heart or limbs, respectively, become narrowed or blocked by a fatty build-up. Although these blockages can be reopened with a stent to widen the blocked ar...
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BHF appoints Lord Hintze and Shane Thakrar as Patrons
We have appointed leading business figures, Lord Hintze and Shane Thakrar, as the first of a new network of Patrons.