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Is how fast you walk more important than how much you walk?
“A faster pace showed positive outcomes for heart disease […], over and above the total number of steps taken,” a newspaper reports. We look behind the headline.
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Your heart rate
Your heart rate (also known as your pulse rate) is the number of times your heart beats per minute (bpm). Everyone’s heart rate is different and can change over time. Read more.
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Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG)
A coronary artery bypass graft, also known as heart bypass surgery, is a procedure that treats coronary heart disease. Learn more about why you might need one, what happens during bypass surgery, the benefits and risks of the operation, your recovery, what you do when you go home, and more.
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Living in most polluted areas increases risk of heart failure by a quarter
People in the most polluted areas could be 27 per cent more likely to develop heart failure
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NIFL partners with BHF NI to save lives
1500 Irish League footballers and coaches and 10,000 supporters in Northern Ireland will learn vital lifesaving skills during Heart Month in February. The Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) to promote the charity’s free and innovative online CPR training tool RevivR.
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RESEARCH
Looking for ways to repair a broken heartUniversity of Oxford | Dr Nicola Smart
Dr Nicola Smart and colleagues at the University of Oxford are looking for new ways to repair damaged heart muscle cells and boost heart repair after a heart attack, to prevent heart failure. Dr Smart discovered that in mice, cells that f...
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Finding efficient ways to regenerate the heart and blood vesselsUniversity of Oxford | Dr Nicola Smart
Damage to the lining of a blood vessel can lead to the accumulation of a fatty plaque (atherosclerosis) and also allows immune cells to infiltrate the vessel wall. These immune cells destroy the muscle and elastic layers of the blood vessel...
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Bleeding hearts predict future heart failure
The amount a heart ‘bleeds’ following a heart attack can predict the severity of future heart failure, according to research presented today at the BCS, in Manchester.
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Early detection of damage to the heart caused by cancer treatmentUniversity of Oxford | Professor Vanessa Ferreira
Cancer survivors are at increased risk of dying from heart disease because chemotherapy and radiotherapy (which kill cancer cells) can also damage heart cells. Damage to the heart may not become apparent until years after treatment, at whic...
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Campaigning and influencing in Northern Ireland
We work hard to protect heart health and secure better services for heart patients across Northern Ireland working in partnership with key decision makers, individuals and organisations. And with your help, we can do more.