Search

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Dr F Lucy Wright

Supervised by Dr Charles Foster, this PhD student is studying how lifestyle factors interact to influence the chances of developing heart and circulatory disease. Lifestyle factors, including physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol ...

Less than one per cent of UK children born with congenital heart disease are enrolled in clinical trials looking to improve treatments, according to research we've funded.

RESEARCH

Swansea University | Dr Spyros Zissimopoulos

BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Spyros Zissimopoulos is studying a protein involved in the electrical activity of the heart muscle cells that help the heart beat regularly. Dr Zissimopoulos is looking at how defects in the r...

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Dr Sanne Peters

Dr Sanne Peters and her colleagues at the University of Oxford are studying why diabetes may have a bigger impact on heart disease risk in women compared with men. Heart disease and stroke remain one of the leading causes of death and dis...

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Professor Keith Channon

The health of our heart and blood vessels depends upon cells in these tissues producing and responding to an abundance of chemical signals. One chemical factor, called tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), has important roles in heart and circulatory ...

The BHF funded research to find out whether walking with Nordic poles could help people with peripheral arterial disease exercise more easily.

RESEARCH

University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

This team of cardiologists think a highly sensitive blood test could help to detect people who are at risk of a future heart attack. Most people attending the emergency department with chest pain will have a blood test to measure troponin,...

RESEARCH

University of Leeds | Professor Sven Plein

Professor Sven Plein and his team at the University of Leeds, are experts in a diagnostic method called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The scientists recently demonstrated that this non-invasive scanning method gives a better view of hea...

South Asians are almost twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease than White Europeans, according to research presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.

RESEARCH

University of Aberdeen | Professor Dana Dawson

Heart disease and the lung condition Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) often occur together. But often, people with COPD may not be aware that they have any heart problems. Beta blockers are often used to treat people with he...