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Diabetes - causes, symptoms & treatments
If you have diabetes, you are more likely to develop heart and circulatory diseases than someone without diabetes. Find out more about diabetes, your heart, and how to keep it healthy.
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Developing a more accurate test to predict a person’s risk of heart diseaseLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Dr Anoop Shah
Doctors have a number of tests they can use to help predict a person’s risk of developing heart and circulatory disease in the future. Although they are reasonably accurate, sometimes they over-estimate the risk. A new and very sensitive...
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Identifying new targets for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosisUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Paul Evans
Patients with atherosclerosis have damaged arteries, caused by a gradual build-up of fat within the artery wall. The body’s immune cells invade the artery wall to remove the fat but can get trapped there, forming a plaque. Plaque is made up...
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Can a new drug improve blood flow to the limbs in peripheral arterial disease?University of Edinburgh | Dr Patrick Hadoke
Dr Patrick Hadoke is investigating whether a new drug he has developed boosts new blood vessel growth and improves blood flow to the limbs in people with peripheral arterial disease. People with peripheral arterial disease have a reduce...
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Finding out how a new group of lipids is important in heart diseaseCardiff University | Professor Valerie O'Donnell
Professor Valerie O’Donnell from Cardiff University has recently worked out the structure of several new families of fats (lipids) called ‘esterified eicosanoids’ that are made by immune cells in our bloodstream and may have a role in heart...
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Clinical trial of ACE inhibitors and statins in young people with type 1 diabetesUniversity College London | Professor John E Deanfield
Young people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during childhood are at risk of long term complications including kidney, heart and circulatory disease which may reduce life expectancy by 10-15 years. Although this risk can be reduced by improv...
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Dietary fat affects blood vessel function in high blood pressureUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Michael Shipston
People with high blood pressure are at higher risk of heart and circulatory disease. High blood pressure can arise as a result of blood vessels losing their elasticity, meaning that blood vessels cannot expand and contract as effectively to...
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Understanding artery health and ageing – part of the Whitehall II studyUniversity College London | Professor Eric Brunner
In 1985 a major research study was launched, with the ambition of investigating the causes of social inequalities in health. The study, called Whitehall II, recruited 10,308 London civil servants aged 35- 55 and has followed them up with re...
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Healthy food shopping list on a budget
BHF dietitian Dell Stanford shares how to plan a food shop list that’s good for your health and your wallet – whether you shop in store or online.
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Heart transplant
A heart transplant is when a damaged or failing heart is replaced by a healthy human heart from a donor. If you have heart failure and medical treatments aren't working, a transplant might be recommended to you.