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How do I start exercising again after a heart attack or heart surgery?
It's good to stay active after a heart attack or heart surgery, but where do you start? Sarah Brealey shares tips from cardiac rehabilitation experts.
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How to prevent stroke: new research and treatments
Stroke expert Professor Salman explains how research could help us treat and prevent strokes through healthier lifestyles and better medicines and surgeries.
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Will eating chocolate reduce your risk of atrial fibrillation?
According to recent news, chocolate could reduce your risk of the most common irregular heartbeat. Before you rush to the shops, we look behind the headlines.
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Is coffee in the morning good for you?
Discover if drinking coffee before noon can really lower your risk of dying from heart problems.
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Could a missing gene make it harder to lose weight?
Is your DNA the reason you struggle to lose weight? We look into recent headlines claiming that a genetic fault could increase the risk of obesity.
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Are artificial sweeteners safe?
Researchers have recently been quoted in newspapers saying, “Artificial sweeteners should not be considered a safe alternative to sugar.” But what’s the truth? We look behind the headlines.
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How are bones and the heart connected?
There are 206 bones in the human body – ranging in size from the tiniest, found in your ear, to the largest, in your thigh. We have just one heart – roughly the size of your fist – in our chest and continuously pumping about eight pints of blood. 206 bones and only one heart. But how are the two connected? Does the quality of your bones affect your heart?
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RESEARCH
Is junk DNA important in heart disease?Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Andrew Smith
In this Intermediate Basic Science Fellowship Dr Andrew Smith from University College London will study regions of our DNA to find out why coronary heart disease often runs in families. We know that there are regions of our DNA that are lin...
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RESEARCH
Developing a new technology to detect people who experience side effects from statinsImperial College London | Professor Darrel Francis
Professor Darrel Francis and his team are studying new ways to help doctors work out which patients are experiencing side effects from statins. Statins are drugs that lower cholesterol and markedly reduce the chance of heart attacks and ...
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Stress
Stress can make you turn to unhealthy habits which increase your risk of heart and circulatory disease. Learn what stress is, whether it can cause high blood pressure or a heart attack and how to manage it.