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What you really need to know about milk
Almond, soya and other milks are more popular than ever, but why are people switching from cow's milk? We explain the pros and cons.
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Our advice on fats
Our Senior Dietitian writes about our advice on healthy eating and explains the latest news stories on saturated and trans fats.
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Turning back the tide on heart and circulatory diseases
Turning Back The Tide is our new five-point plan to improve outcomes for people with or at risk of heart and circulatory diseases. Find out more.
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Even moderate drinking linked to heart and circulatory diseases
Regularly drinking more than the recommended UK guidelines for alcohol could take years off your life, according to new research that we part-funded published today in the Lancet. The study shows that drinking more alcohol is associated with a higher risk of stroke, fatal aneurysm, heart failure and death.
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10 weird things we've been told cause heart disease
It's hard to read or watch the news without hearing of new things that could, apparently, cause heart and circulatory disease. But can you believe what you read? We explain.
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Does it matter what time you take your medicines?
Find out if taking statins, blood pressure tablets and heart medication at a certain time can make a difference with pharmacist Antania Tang.
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A growing evidence base for care and support planning
Our programme adds to a growing evidence base showing that care and support planning can be implemented at practice, community and health system level.
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Sheffield research to find new treatment to ‘switch off’ life-threatening genes
The British Heart Foundation have awarded £800,000 to researchers at the University of Sheffield to develop a new gene therapy that will treat heart and circulatory diseases.
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Antibodies may be key to pre-empting heart attacks
Researchers believe that testing levels of certain antibodies in the blood will soon help to identify patients with ‘vulnerable’ or life-threatening plaques in heart arteries.
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500,000 missed out on blood pressure lowering drugs during pandemic
Nearly half a million people missed out on starting medication to lower their blood pressure during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research supported by the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre at Health Data Research UK and published in Nature Medicine