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RESEARCH
The factors involved in forming blood clotsAnglia Ruskin University | Dr Nicholas Pugh
Understanding how platelets stick together may reveal a new way to prevent blood clotting that could ultimately prevent heart attacks or strokes. When blood clots form in blood vessels they can block the flow of blood and can cause heart...
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How Lrg1 regulates abnormal blood vessel growthUniversity College London | Professor Stephen Moss
Professors Stephen Moss and John Greenwood from University College London are interested in the growth of new blood vessels (a process called angiogenesis). This growth is an important repair process in the body. However, inappropriate grow...
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Which anti-platelet drug slows down atherosclerosis most effectively?King's College London | Professor Albert Ferro
Millions of people in the UK are living with coronary heart disease - the UK’s biggest killer. It caused by a process called atherosclerosis, when fatty plaques build up inside artery walls and the vessels become narrow. Clinical pharma...
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Simple blood test could detect life-threatening aortic tears
A simple blood test could help doctors spot deadly damage to the aorta, the body’s largest blood vessel, according to research we've funded presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society conference.
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Atrial septal defect
Learn more about atrial septal defects including the types, what causes them, treatments, and how to live with one.
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Reflections of research - 60 years in the making
To celebrate our 60th birthday, we asked BHF researchers past and present to send us images that told the story of our research and advances in healthcare over the past 60 years
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Blocked arteries: what are the signs and symptoms?
Find out what causes clogged arteries and if they can be cleared with BHF Professor Martin Bennett.
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A tribute to Donald Longmore
A tribute to BHF surgeon, Professor Donald Longmore, a member of the team who brought us the first heart transplant
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MPs to debate air pollution in Parliament
Strengthen our air quality laws to protect the country’s health from toxic air pollution – that’s our message to MPs today as they debate the Environment Bill. BHF-funded research has shown that exposure to air pollution, and in particular PM2.5, can damage our heart and circulatory health in a number of ways, increasing the risk of a heart attack or stroke.
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When I learnt I had FH it was like someone hit me in the face
Statins through the eyes of BHF Professor Sir Rory Collins and Jan Barton-Wolfe