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Nicholas Mills is the BHF Professor of Cardiology at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh.

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University of Bournemouth | Dr Paul Hartley

Our understanding of cardiovascular disease is limited by our lack of knowledge about the genes that control our cardiovascular biology. Many genes evolved millions of years ago in the hearts and circulatory systems of simple organisms such...

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University of Leeds | Professor Khalid Naseem

Diabetes is a complex disorder characterized by too much sugar (glucose) in the blood. People with diabetes are at high risk of developing heart and circulatory disease, partly because of inflammation which damages blood vessels. Unders...

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Professor Krishnan Bhaskaran

Dr Krishnan Bhaskaran and his team are studying whether media interest in statin side effects caused fewer patients to start taking statins, or stop taking them. Statins are drugs used to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart at...

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Graeme Nixon

To ensure the maximum volume of blood is pumped around the body, blood must flow in one direction. This one-way flow is controlled by heart valves, which have to be strong and flexible to do their job. As we age, the valve that stops the ba...

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King's College London | Dr Sarah Chapple

Dr Sarah Chapple and her colleagues at King’s College London are working out if a molecule called sulforaphane could protect mothers and babies from the harmful effects of maternal obesity and diabetes. Obesity increases the risk of gesta...

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University of Southampton | Professor Roxana Carare

Dr Roxana Carare from the University of Southampton is studying vascular dementia, a common form of dementia where the brain’s blood supply is impaired. She believes vascular dementia happens because the brain cannot get rid of waste and fl...

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Manchester Metropolitan University | Dr Stephen White

Around a third of heart attacks are caused when fatty plaques in the walls of arteries become unstable and rupture. This tends to happen when the cells that line the blood vessels – endothelial cells – detach, causing the formation of blood...