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Researchers can now grow a model of a patient’s blood vessel wall in a dish from a small sample of their blood. The technology could be used to create personalised testing kits for new drugs and advance research into diseases of the blood vessels including stroke, heart attack and vascular dementia.

Serious heart attacks are more likely to happen at the start of the working week than at any other time, according to new research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) conference in Manchester. 

You can help heal hearts this Christmas by taking part in a BHF festive fundraisers. In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the BHF needs the public’s support more than ever to enable it to continue our life saving research and provide vital support to the 7.4 million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory diseases.

People who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be taken straight to their nearest emergency department, according to research we’ve funded presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Amsterdam and published in The Lancet.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Thomas Iskratsch

How do cells know whether they should form heart muscle, a blood vessel or something else? Recent discoveries have shown that one factor influencing heart muscle development is that cells are affected by how rigid their environment is. But ...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker

People with a type of inherited heart condition called long QT syndrome are at risk of abnormal heart rhythms. These abnormal heart rhythms put people at risk of sudden cardiac death, particularly during or following exercise. Long QT syndr...

We are developing new and better ways of tackling high blood pressure by awarding £1.5 million of grants to pioneering community projects across the UK.

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King's College London | Dr Anna Zampetaki

King’s College researchers are investigating the role and importance of a molecule seen to be raised in cells in diabetes. More than 4 million people in the UK have diabetes. It is a serious condition with many health consequences, includi...

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University College London | Professor Christiana Ruhrberg

Damage or disease in our blood vessels can lead to heart attacks, strokes or problems with the limbs or vision. Stem cell research – part of a field known as ‘regenerative medicine’ - offers hope for a new approach to treating these conditi...

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University of Glasgow | Professor Rhian Touyz

The University of Glasgow has received nearly £3 million over the next five years to establish a BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Vascular Science and Medicine led by new BHF professor Rhian Touyz. In 2008, the BHF began a £34 millio...