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Simple ambulance test saves lives after heart attack, says study
Simple ambulance test can save lives.
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PUBLICATION
Annual Review 2016 for Northern IrelandBooklet, published on 06/10/2016
Our Annual Review 2016 for Wales details the highlights for BHF Northern Ireland, including how we've spent your donation, fundraising activities and new research we've funded.
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RESEARCH
Understanding the heart’s protective mechanisms to prevent heart failureKing's College London | Professor Ajay Shah
The focus of most heart failure treatments is to prevent further degeneration of the heart muscle, a process called adverse cardiac remodelling. There is, however, another type of remodelling that is good for the heart. Adaptive remodelling...
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How heart failure affects heart muscle cellsUniversity of Manchester | Professor Andrew Trafford
When you exercise or are frightened your heart pumps much harder due to the release of certain chemicals in the body. In heart diseases such as heart failure the muscle cells in the heart which are responsible for the pumping of blood fail ...
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Designing a new drug target to reduce high blood sugar and blood vessel damage in diabetesUniversity of Dundee | Professor Calum Sutherland
People with diabetes are at an increased risk of heart and circulatory conditions because of damage to blood vessels caused by high blood sugar (glucose) levels. Small vessel disease (microvascular disease) is a complication of diabetes an...
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Joint funding with the National Institute for Health Research
The BHF co-funds clinical trials with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
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RESEARCH
The role of RNA molecules in blood vessel remodellingUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
BHF Professor Andrew Baker and his team at the University of Edinburgh want to develop innovative treatments that target abnormal blood vessel growth during heart and circulatory disease. Blood vessel remodelling is a common feature of ca...
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RESEARCH
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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Virtual hearts for risk prediction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyKing's College London | Dr Pablo Lamata
Dr Pablo Lamata and his team at King’s College London are searching for new ways to help doctors predict the risk of complications in the inherited heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). In HCM the heart muscle in the left v...
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Mind the gender gap
We have released Bias & Biology,bringing together a breadth of research in order to paint a picture of how women in the UK are disadvantaged at every stage of having a heart attack, compared to men.