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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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Coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease is when your coronary arteries become narrowed by a gradual build-up of fatty material within their walls. Find out more about the causes, prevention and treatment of CHD
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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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Is garlic good for your heart?
Our expert discusses the evidence around the potential health benefits of garlic.
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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
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Stroke - causes, signs and symptoms
A stroke happens when the blood supply to part of your brain is cut off, causing your brain cells to become damaged or die. Find out more about stroke and heart and circulatory disease.