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Working out how our genes affect our risk of coronary heart diseaseQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Panos Deloukas
Professor Panos Deloukas and his team at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry are carrying out very large genetic studies called genome-wide association studies (GWAS). They are working out how variations in our genes contr...
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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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Using stress signals to predict heart diseaseUniversity of Glasgow | Dr Paul Welsh
In this Intermediate Fellowship, Dr Welsh aims to develop biomarker tests to better predict the risk of cardiovascular disease, including a heart attack. Doctors currently use risk scores to assess how high a person’s risk of a heart attack...
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Investigating the role of fats in the heart in type 2 diabetesUniversity of Oxford | Dr Lisa Heather
Heart and circulatory disease is the leading cause of death in people with type 2 diabetes. In type 2 diabetes the heart is less able to pump blood around the body, and this has been linked to changes in how the heart makes its own energy f...
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A new technique for tracking the blood enzyme haem oxygenase 1Imperial College London | Dr Joseph Boyle
Haem is an important molecule in our blood that carries oxygen and gives blood its red colour. The amount of haem in the body is maintained by an enzyme called haem oxygenase 1 (HO-1). HO-1 breaks down bruises by converting the blood into h...
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Working out why fat accumulates in the liverUniversity of Oxford | Professor Leanne Hodson
BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow Professor Leanne Hodson is studying how fat accumulates in the liver, which can increase the risk of heart disease. We don’t fully understand why fat accumulates, but we do know that within the l...
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Identifying ways to predict a person’s risk of cardiovascular diseaseUniversity 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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The future of MRI research
Find out about the cutting-edge cardiac MRI (CMR) research that BHF-funded scientists are pioneering with Dr Phoebe Kitscha.
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Anghydraddoldebau cardiofasgwlaidd yng Nghymru: dadansoddiad
Explore the data in this report that examines the link between deprivation and cardiovascular disease in Wales (Welsh language).