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There are 3447 result(s) for coronary disease mortality
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RESEARCH
Sorting apples from pears: do Wnt proteins determine body fat distribution?University of Oxford | Dr Constantinos Christodoulides
BHF Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow Dr Constantinos Christodoulides is working out if proteins called Wnts affect a person’s risk of developing heart and circulatory disease. The location of body fat determines how it influences th...
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Studying the effect of IL-36 on the heart’s blood vessels after a heart attackUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Neena Kalia
A heart attack occurs when an artery supplying blood to the heart becomes blocked, starving part of the heart of its blood supply. These arteries are just a few millimetres in diameter, but are large enough to be assessed by the angiogram e...
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£1 million towards the creation of a Big Data InstituteUniversity of Oxford | Professor Sir Rory E Collins
The University of Oxford is establishing a new Big Data Institute (BDI for short) to help analyse large and complex sets of results that are being generated from scientific research, including research into the heart and circulatory system....
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Penny Lancaster surprises children with heart conditions
Penny Lancaster visits the Royal Brompton Hospital to support the British Heart Foundation’s Christmas campaign to fund research to keep more families together
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Previous awards - International Cardiovascular Research Partnership Awards
Learn more about what we have previously funded under the International Cardiovascular Research Partnership Award funding scheme
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Developing whole heart MRIImperial College London | Dr Peter Gatehouse
Coronary artery disease and some inherited heart muscle diseases cause patients to experience symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue and chest pain, because of a restricted blood supply to the heart muscle. A relatively new method for measurin...
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PUBLICATION
Annual Review 2016 for ScotlandBooklet, published on 06/10/2016
Our 2016 Annual Review for Scotland details the year's highlights for BHF Scotland.
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Annual Report and Accounts 2016Booklet, published on 05/09/2016
Our Annual Report and Accounts 2016 gives a detailed account of our achievements and highlights over the past year.
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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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Deciphering the development of deep vein thrombosis (DVT)Imperial College London | Professor James Crawley
Blood clotting is a vital process that helps our bodies to heal from injury, and prevents us from bleeding to death. However, blood clots in the wrong place at the wrong time can be very dangerous. When they occur in a vein, often in the le...