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You can do plenty to reduce your chances of heart attack or stroke, whether you have coronary heart and circulatory disease or been told you're at risk. We explain.

Eating more eggs has been linked to a higher risk of heart and circulatory disease and death, but is this the full picture?

BHF pays tribute to Professor Michael Oliver - one of the charity's most eminent chair holders between 1978 and 1989

Professor Darrel Francis, a professor of cardiology, answers common queries including: are statins safe, are there side effects, what’s a low-dose statin, and can you drink alcohol on statins?

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University of Oxford | Dr Gillian Douglas

Dr Gillian Douglas at the University of Oxford is working out if atherosclerosis, the process where arteries becoming furred up with fatty material and harden to form a plaque, can be reversed. Plaque rupture can lead to a heart attack o...

Lipoprotein (a) or lp(a) is a type of lipoprotein made by your liver. Lp(a) helps carry fats around your body. But having high levels of Lp(a) can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease, such as a heart attack or stroke.

Most people won’t know they have atherosclerosis until they have a heart attack, stroke or angina. We're funding research to beat the heartbreak atherosclerosis causes.

A major review, led by BHF Professor Sir Rory Collins and published in The Lancet, suggests the benefits of statins have been underestimated and their potential harms exaggerated, due to failings in acknowledging the evidence from randomised trials and the limitations of other types of studies.

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