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Numbers of heart patients waiting over four months at record high
NHS England monthly waiting times data shows increasing numbers of heart patients waiting for treatment
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Heart care waiting list continues to rise
Heart care waiting lists in England rose again, new figures show.
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Why do blood vessels age prematurely in people with COPD?Imperial College London | Dr Koralia Paschalaki
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common lung disease mainly affecting older adults who smoke. Heart and circulatory disease is the main cause of death in people with COPD. The two conditions frequently occur together yet th...
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Why do people with diabetes develop heart failure?University of Leicester | Professor Gerald McCann
Supervised by Professor Gerald McCann, the Clinical Research Training Fellow on this grant is working out why heart failure develops in people with diabetes and if there are ways to detect it early. Heart failure is one of the main caus...
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Man in 18-hour wait for heart attack treatment backs BHF campaign to fix cardiac crisis
A retired teacher who waited around 18 hours to be treated in hospital for a heart attack is among more than 40,000 people backing our campaign to fix ‘the worst heart care crisis in living memory’.
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Routine scans prevent thousands of heart attacks
A routine heart scan for people with chest pain has helped to prevent around 6,000 heart attacks in the last decade, researchers we fund estimate. Our research helped to provide the evidence for the effectiveness of the scans, leading to them being recommended in clinical guidelines.
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Diabetes linked to worse cognitive function after stroke
A new study suggests that people with Type 2 diabetes may have worse cognitive function three to six months after a stroke than those with normal fasting blood sugar levels.
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The link between immune cells and high blood pressureUniversity of Edinburgh | Dr Neeraj Dhaun
High blood pressure (hypertension) is an important risk factor for heart disease, and its cause remains unclear in most people. Recent studies have suggested that a particular cell within the immune system, the macrophage, is involved in th...
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Harnessing an active ingredient of fruit and vegetables to fight atherosclerosisCardiff University | Professor Dipak Ramji
Atherosclerosis is the name that doctors use for the narrowing of arteries due to fatty plaques building up in the walls of the blood vessel. It’s the condition that leads to angina, heart attacks and some strokes. The development of statin...
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Using stem cells to study atherosclerosis and Marfan syndromeUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Sanjay Sinha
Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in the blood vessel wall contribute to the ‘furring up’ of vessels in coronary heart disease and stroke. SMCs are also involved in an inherited condition known as Marfan syndrome, where a defect in fibrillin-1, a ...