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Some heart attacks can be caused by partial blockage of your heart’s arteries. In the past they were considered “minor” and didn’t always get the treatment they needed. BHF-funded research helped solve that problem.

Researchers part-funded by the British Heart Foundation have found a potential new way to treat heart attacks

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University of Exeter | Dr Sebastian Oltean

Although blood sugar (glucose) levels can be controlled relatively well in most people with diabetes, many will still develop complications that can affect their heart and blood vessels. These include a condition called diabetic nephropathy...

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King's College London | Professor Michael Shattock

To work normally, heart muscle cells need to turn precise electrical impulses from nerves into the contracting motion of the heartbeat. During the heartbeat, each muscle cell releases a minutely timed burst of charged molecules to instruct ...

We have responded to latest NHS England figures revealing dangerously long ambulance waiting times for heart attacks and strokes, and an ever-growing backlog of cardiac care.

Thanks to 60 years of public support, we’ve become a global leader in funding heart and circulatory disease research, which has helped to improve and save millions of lives. But as the world responds to a pandemic on a scale unseen for a century, we’re having to work harder than ever to protect our life saving work while playing our part in fighting coronavirus (Covid-19).

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University of Edinburgh | Dr Tijana MITIC

BHF Career Re-entry Research Fellow Tijana Mitic is studying ways to restore blood supply in the legs when blood vessels become damaged, for instance in peripheral arterial disease. Peripheral arterial disease results from a build-up of...

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University of Manchester | Dr Delvac Oceandy

Heart failure is a life-threatening condition that develops when the heart becomes damaged because of a heart attack, high blood pressure or an inherited heart condition. In most cases, the heart fails because heart muscle cells overgrow - ...

Latest NHS England figures reveal average ambulance response time for category 2 calls (which includes suspected heart attacks and strokes) have risen to 51 minutes in England. The target is 18 minutes.

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University of Manchester | Professor Andrew Trafford

Professor Andrew Trafford and his colleagues at the University of Manchester are working out what factors within cells are responsible for triggering irregular heart rhythms, or arrhythmias. People who have had a recent heart attack are, i...