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Weight-loss injections explained
Find out more about how weight-loss injections like Mounjaro and Wegovy work, their potential side effects and how to access them on the NHS.
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Developing a sensor for blood vessel damageManchester Metropolitan University | Dr Stephen White
Around a third of heart attacks are caused when fatty plaques in the walls of arteries become unstable and rupture. This tends to happen when the cells that line the blood vessels – endothelial cells – detach, causing the formation of blood...
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Finding a new target to prevent the formation of dangerous blood clotsUniversity of Hull | Professor Khalid Naseem
Anti-platelet drugs are prescribed to many thousands of people in the UK with coronary heart disease, angina, heart failure or heart valve disease. They interfere with small blood cells called platelets, which help the blood to clot, reduci...
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3D hearts predict patient survival
Researchers that we've part-funded have developed technology which can accurately predict the prognosis of people who suffer from pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Developing new tracers that detect low oxygen levelsKing's College London | Dr Richard Southworth
Dr Richard Southworth and his team at King’s College London are studying new radioactive tracers that could help doctors diagnose heart disease earlier. When the blood supply to the heart is restricted by narrowed or blocked arteries, tiss...
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Study shows new technology can predict death from heart attacks
Researchers that we fund at the University of Oxford have developed a new technology that can flag patients at risk of deadly heart attacks years before they occur.
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Reducing the UK's salt intake: potential benefits
Results of a study into the possible health and economic benefits of reducing the UK's daily salt intake to World Health Organization guideline levels.
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Tackling reperfusion injury - a side effect of heart attack treatmentNewcastle University | Professor Ioakim Spyridopoulos
In the UK the standard treatment for heart attacks is angioplasty - a procedure to quickly open the blocked coronary artery. This has played a part in vastly improving the survival of patients who experience a heart attack. However, the abr...
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Belfast scientist awarded £250,000 for heart failure research
Researchers we fund at Queen’s University, Belfast have been awarded are to investigate if a protein they have identified could be used to diagnose and treat heart failure patients
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Nicholas Mills
Nicholas Mills is the BHF Professor of Cardiology at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh.