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Imperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg

Atherosclerosis develops when fatty deposits build up in the walls of arteries narrowing them and thus reducing the amount of blood reaching organs. If a fatty plaque ruptures it can block the artery and cause a heart attack or stroke. We k...

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University of Cambridge | Professor John Danesh

Understanding the direct causes of heart and circulatory diseases would help to prevent more people dying from them. However, it can be difficult to distinguish whether something causes a particular disease, or happens to be more common in ...

My daughter, 5, helped saved my life after a heart attack on Diwali – now I want to raise awareness.

Male endurance athletes who have spent decades training and competing are more likely to develop scarring in their hearts and may be at higher risk of abnormal heart rhythms, according to research we've funded.

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University of Oxford | Professor Barbara Casadei

BHF Professor Casadei, at the University of Oxford, is researching the causes of the abnormal heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF), and has identified an important protective role for a gas called nitric oxide (NO). Professor Casadei has...

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University College London | Professor Dr Aroon D Hingorani

A BHF-funded consortium bringing together top researchers from University College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and the University of Bristol is analysing blood samples for a huge range of ...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Antonio Vidal Puig

Obesity can lead to a number of serious or life-threatening diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. When adipose tissue cannot store any more fat, then the excess fats can go to other organs, poisoning them. This is called ‘lipotoxi...

Learn about the different types of blood tests, how blood tests are taken, whether they hurt and what happens afterwards.

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has funded new research at the University of Leeds which will monitor the heartbeats of more than 100 athletes over two years to measure how endurance exercise impacts their heart.

Over 125,000 heart attacks and strokes could be prevented in the coming decade by finding and treating the millions of people with undiagnosed high blood pressure in the UK, alongside improving treatment for those already diagnosed with high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, according to our new analysis