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Thanks to relentless research, we’ve improved and saved the lives of thousands of people living with an inherited heart condition.

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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...

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St George's, University of London | Professor Alicja Rudnicka

Dr Alicja Rudnicka and her colleagues at St George’s, University of London, are studying if retinal blood vessels in the back of the eye could be a ‘window’ into blood vessel health. Changes in the shape and size of retinal blood vessel...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Thomas Krieg

Dr Thomas Krieg and his team at the University of Cambridge are testing whether a drug that they have developed protects cells from being damaged by high glucose levels in diabetes. People with diabetes often have high blood sugar peaks...

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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...

Hear a personal experience of growing up with a heart condition and transitioning to adult services.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Maria Paula Longhi

Dr Paula Longhi and her team at Queen Mary, University of London are studying why people who are obese are at higher risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. White blood cells can become i...

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King's College London | Dr Javier Barallobre Barreiro

Researchers at King’s College London are studying why the mesh of proteins around the heart changes in heart disease. During heart failure the heart can’t pump strongly enough to respond to the demands of the body. It is a life-limiting ...

According to our research nearly 80 per cent of people over the age of 30 have a heart older than their actual age, putting them at higher risk of a potentially fatal heart attack or stroke.

There have been around 10,000 smoking-related heart deaths in under a year as Tobacco and Vapes Bill stalls in Parliament. We are therefore calling on the Government to urgently progress the Tobacco and Vapes Bill through Parliament.