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University of St Andrews | Dr Alan Stewart

Supervised by Dr Alan Stewart, the PhD student on this project is studying how zinc is involved in blood clot formation and if zinc is important for why some heparin-based drugs do not work. There is a lot of evidence linking zinc to blo...

Discover how BHF-funded research has changed the lives of millions of people who have had cardiac surgery by downloading our impact report.

You might already know that a Mediterranean diet is linked to better health, but what is it and what exactly are the benefits of eating the Mediterranean way? Our animation explains.

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King's College London | Dr Michael G Robson

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) vasculitis is a condition where antibodies that usually help fight infection instead trigger the attack of the body’s own immune cells and cause inflammation of the blood vessels. This can cause d...

A drug already used to treat high blood pressure could be re-purposed as the first treatment to tackle a type of vascular dementia caused by damaged and ‘leaky’ small blood vessels in the brain, according to research we've part-funded and published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Learn more about what the BHF House of Care programme aimed to achieve by encouraging the adoption of care and support planning in the NHS, and how it was run.

The NHS has announced the nationwide rollout of lifesaving blood pressure checks in high street pharmacies.

People are putting their health at risk by not taking their blood pressure medication, research claims.

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University of Leicester | Professor Matthew Bown

An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a swelling of the main blood vessel of the body, the aorta. The aorta is usually about 2cm wide, but aneurysms can cause this to increase to over 5.5cm. AAAs are dangerous as they can burst and cause in...

Here are six healthy breakfasts that can be made quickly or pre-prepared to make sure you get your day off to a good start.