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Cognitive behavioural therapy can improve fitness and heart muscle recovery in people with Takotsubo syndrome

Professor Del Galdo explains the symptoms, causes and treatments of Raynaud's, and dispels myths about links between the circulatory condition and the heart.

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University of Leeds | Professor Mark Kearney

Type 2 diabetes affects millions of people across the world and is a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. We urgently need to find new treatments to prevent heart and circulatory disease in people with diabetes, so we can improve the ...

Learn more about what we have previously funded under the International Cardiovascular Research Partnership Award funding scheme

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University of Oxford | Professor Claudia Monaco

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are ‘metabolic’ diseases that increase the risk of atherosclerosis, a build-up of fatty material inside the arteries. When these fatty plaques break apart they can trigger a heart attack or stroke. A common f...

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University of Manchester | Dr John Bowes

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory condition affecting the joints. People with RA are at a higher risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) – when the arteries supplying the heart with blood get clogged up with fatty deposits. CHD caus...

Find out whether drinking cow’s milk can really increase the risk of heart disease in women.

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University of Oxford | Dr Mark Crabtree

Maintaining the right balance in the body of beneficial chemicals called nitric oxide (NO) and damaging chemicals called reactive oxygen species (ROS) is essential for our heart and circulatory system to work correctly. In some diseases suc...

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University College London | Dr Claudio Capelli

Computer simulations could be an extremely valuable tool for visualising, testing and planning surgery in babies and children born with heart defects (known as congenital heart diseases). However, while the technology is ready, the techniqu...

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Imperial College London | Dr Josefin Ahnstrom

Versican is a protein present mainly in the walls of our blood vessels where it helps maintain their tubular shape. But versican levels are known to rise when heart and circulatory disease develops and is believed to increase the ability of...