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The heart care waiting list rose again in England, bucking the trend of overall waiting lists declining.

An algorithm developed using artificial intelligence could help doctors to diagnose heart attacks in women more accurately and quicker than ever before, according to research we fund and being presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona.

We are working with Joint British Societies to deliver the first ‘living’ guideline for the prevention of CVD. Find out about the programme and how it’s funded.

Half of people with chest pain investigated with standard scans and given heart all-clear may be missing out on the correct diagnosis

Nearly 284,000 people were waiting for time critical heart operations and other heart procedures at the end of November 2021, latest NHS England figures reveal – 22 per cent higher than at the beginning of the pandemic.

A team part-funded by us at the University of Oxford have demonstrated earlier beating of the heart in mouse embryos. In the study researchers looked at the developing mouse heart and found that the muscle started to contract as soon as it formed the cardiac crescent – an early stage in heart development.

A healthy diet can reduce your risk of developing coronary heart disease, improve your gut health and stop you gaining weight, reducing your risk of diabetes and high blood pressure.

Being diagnosed, or living with, a heart or circulatory condition can affect your mental health.

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University of Leicester | Professor Anthony Gershlick

Total blockage of a coronary artery, or chronic total occlusion (CTO), causes painful angina. Around 30 per cent of people with CTO cannot be adequately treated by current therapy. Professor Anthony Gershlick from the University of Leiceste...

Our expert answers a question on whether it's normal to experience constipation after heart surgery and suggests ways to help avoid it.