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New Government must commit to a heart disease action plan

Sir Keir Starmer’s new Government must seize the moment and tackle the ongoing heart care crisis head-on, the BHF urges today.

Health data push to accelerate research into Covid-19 and heart disease

A new health data resource will enable vital research to take place into Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease, with the aim of improving treatments and care for patients.

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Understanding patterns of weight change as a risk predictor for heart disease

University College London | Dr Michail Katsoulis

Most research into weight and health has focused extensively on body mass index (BMI) levels across different populations of people at a single point in time. However, there has been no study looking at the relationship between weight chang...

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Studying the development of pre-eclampsia and future risk of heart disease

University of Oxford | Professor Keith Channon

This Oxford team is studying how pre-eclampsia develops and influences the long-term health of women and their children. High blood pressure during pregnancy – known as pre-eclampsia – affects 5-10% of pregnancies around the world. It inc...

Consensus statement on cardiovascular disease

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Using machine-learning for personalised risk prediction of heart and circulatory disease

University of Cambridge | Professor Emanuele Di Angelantonio

Heart and circulatory disease causes more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK. In GP practices around the country, people over the age of 40 have their risk factors measured to estimate how likely they are to develop heart and circulator...

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Finding out how a new group of lipids is important in heart disease

Cardiff University | Professor Valerie O'Donnell

Professor Valerie O’Donnell from Cardiff University has recently worked out the structure of several new families of fats (lipids) called ‘esterified eicosanoids’ that are made by immune cells in our bloodstream and may have a role in heart...

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British Regional Heart Study (BRHS): studying the causes and ways to prevent heart and circulatory disease in older men

University College London | Professor Sasiwarang Goya Wannamethee

People over 70 are at particular risk of death from coronary heart disease (CHD), yet most research tends to focus on patients and risk factors in middle age. The British Regional Heart Study is one of the few studies that has been collecti...