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News stories have reported that olive oil can reduce the risk of fatal heart disease and other diseases. We look behind the headlines.

Statins are not the cause of muscle pain in over 90 per cent of people who experience symptoms, according to research we have funded presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress and published in The Lancet.

A simple digital photograph of the back of the eye can predict a major cardiovascular event set to happen in the next decade with 70 per cent accuracy, according to research part funded by us

Barbara Casadei combines her role as a heart doctor at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with pioneering work to improve our understanding of atrial fibrillation

What's your heart age? Find out with this calculator from NHS Choices and the British Heart Foundation

Are flax seeds good for me and are they better crushed or whole? Find out more.

BHF-funded researchers find that overweight patients do better after heart surgery than patients of a normal weight.

Scientists are to trial a world-first drug to treat high blood pressure that can be given by injection twice a year.

The BHF reacts to the Government's new healthy food standard

RESEARCH

University College London | Dr Riyaz Patel

Millions of people in the UK are living with coronary heart disease. Many of these people will unfortunately go on to have more heart problems, such as heart attack, heart failure and heart rhythm disturbance (arrhythmia). While we know muc...