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Protecting the heart against ischaemia-reperfusion injuryUniversity of Bristol | Professor M Saadeh Suleiman
Professor Saadeh Suleiman is working out how we can protect the heart from further damage when blood flow is restored after ischaemia; this is when the heart is deprived of blood carrying oxygen, such as during a heart attack. The only way ...
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BHF-NIHR partnership set to fast-track coronavirus research
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has joined forces with the National Institute of Health research (NIHR) to launch a nationwide research initiative to better understand why people with heart and circulatory diseases are at higher risk and often suffer more severely with Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.
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What are the missed opportunities for statin treatment in the UK?London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Dr Emily Herrett
Statins are proven to reduce the risk of heart and circulatory disease. They are commonly prescribed in the UK but there is strong evidence to suggest that not all people eligible for statins receive them. This means that there may be heart...
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How pulmonary arterial hypertension develops and progressesUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Amer Rana
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, causing damage to the right side of the heart. Symptoms include breathlessness or tiredness, and can cause death from heart...
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Harnessing artificial intelligence in cardiomyopathy diagnosisImperial College London | Dr Declan O'Regan
A multidisciplinary team of scientists is using the latest technology to help predict how cardiomyopathy will affect individual patients. Cardiomyopathy is a group of diseases affecting the heart muscle, which can lead to heart failure or ...
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Understanding healthy heart development to help repair congenital heart defectsKing's College London | Dr Karen Liu
Recent technological advances have made it possible to identify changes in our DNA which can cause congenital heart disease. But this still doesn’t always mean we know what the affected genes do during heart development. Dr Karen Liu has ...
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Andrew Baker
BHF Professor of Translational Cardiovascular Sciences, Andrew Baker, is leading a team of scientists aiming to 'translate' discoveries made in the lab into new treatments for heart patients.
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Fatty plaques build up at bends and branches of arteries
The fatty plaques responsible for heart attack and stroke are most likely to build up at the branches and bends of blood vessels, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the journal ATVB.
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Studying thickening at the tip of the heart in athletes and non-athletesUniversity College London | Professor James Moon
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a form of heart muscle disease that can be caused by faults in certain genes. It causes the heart muscle wall to thicken abnormally and people with these changes are at risk of dying suddenly from danger...