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Our expert answer a question about the follow-up care you should receive from your GP if you have had a heart attack.

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Newcastle University | Professor Helen M Arthur

Many thousands of heart attack survivors go on to develop heart failure, a condition which has a detrimental effect on their quality of life. Over recent decades scientists have carried out clinical trials to try to repair damaged hearts us...

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Scientists funded by the British Heart Foundation at the University of Bristol and University of Cambridge have created a new heart valve with potentially greater benefits than current artificial valves.

Regular cannabis use could cause structural changes to the heart which is a precursor to heart failure, a new study suggests.

New genetic causes of ‘rare’ diseases, including pulmonary arterial hypertension, have been discovered by technology reading whole genomes in pioneering research that the BHF part-funded.

Health Data Research UK awards £54 million funding to six consortia of world leading UK universities and research institutes to fuel scientific advances using data science – part funded by the BHF.

A first-of-its-kind trial has found that a high sensitivity blood test in A&E can improve diagnosis for one in five patients who have a heart muscle injury. The trial, funded by us and published today in the BMJ, found that the test helped doctors to better diagnose and treat these patients, reducing death and future heart attacks in this group by almost 10 per cent after five years.

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Stefan Hoppler

Thanks to research, it is now possible to direct embryonic stem cells in the laboratory to mature into spontaneously contracting heart cells. However, these procedures are currently too inefficient and unreliable to generate stem cells that...

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