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  • RESEARCH

    Investigating the mechanisms behind blood vessel damage in diabetes

    University of Edinburgh | Dr Andrea Caporali

    In diabetic muscles, high blood glucose levels damage blood vessels leading to reduced blood flow (ischaemia). Clinical consequences range from non-healing skin ulcers to limb ischaemia that is so severe that amputation may be required. ...

  • RESEARCH

    Is a tiny molecule a big culprit in atrial fibrillation?

    University of Oxford | Dr Svetlana Reilly

    BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Svetlana Reilly is studying how a small molecule called microRNA 31 (miR31) causes heart muscle changes in atrial fibrillation. Arrhythmias occur when the heart’s normal rhythm becomes d...

  • Intellectual property

    To enhance the likelihood research findings can be translated quickly into patient benefit, we ask all grant holders to be aware of the British Heart Foundation's standard conditions on intellectual property.

  • RESEARCH

    Improving how weight loss advice is given by GPs

    University of Oxford | Professor Paul Aveyard

    Around one in four adults in the UK is obese, and the levels are rising. Obesity increases the risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases, and costs the NHS around £4.2 billion a year. GPs are in a good position to guide patients to ...

  • Research offers hope of new treatment for life-threatening aneurysms

    A protein involved in the development of blood vessels in the womb could provide a promising target for new drugs to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), according to research funded by us published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

  • Healthy meat: your questions answered

    Our expert explains what is red meat, what is white meat, and whether meat is bad for you

  • RESEARCH

    Interferon-gamma’s role in development of atherosclerosis

    Cardiff University | Professor Dipak Ramji

    Dr Dipak Ramji and Dr Timothy Hughes at Cardiff University are investigating an important molecule in the circulatory system called interferon-gamma, whose action may promote dangerous inflammation of the arteries (a process called atherosc...

  • RESEARCH

    A national resource to study pulmonary arterial hypertension

    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 ...

  • RESEARCH

    Using allopurinol to improve the outcome for stroke patients in the UK

    University 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...

  • Diabetes medications

    We explain oral medications that can control your blood glucose levels, which is critical to managing type 2 diabetes.