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New research has claimed that eating processed meat, unprocessed red meat or poultry increases your risk of heart disease. But how accurate is this?

Pies are a popular, though rarely heart-healthy, comfort food. But with a few changes even those with heart and circulatory disease can enjoy them.

Which foods add the most unhealthy fat to our diet?

Find out how to make the post-work stage of life as enjoyable and fulfilling as possible from psychologist Gregory Fitzgibbon.

Learn about the causes of a heart attack, how a heart attack is diagnosed, treated and how to take care of yourself at home and in the hospital.

Exercise helps everyone live a happier and healthier life. If you have heart and circulatory disease it can help manage your condition and get you feeling great.

Find out why women who have heart attacks face poorer care than men, and what we're doing to change this.

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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...

Learn all about vasospastic angina, including the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, outlook and where you can get support.

Short-term daily doses of statins before and after heart surgery do not prevent heart muscle damage or the development of atrial fibrillation (AF), according to an international clinical trial led by the University of Oxford and funded by the BHF. Evidence could change guidelines and suggests a break from drug before and after bypass operations.